The Vile Ingredients in Cigarettes
By Editor
A DISGUSTED smoker, a former revenue agent in Chicago, is reported as saying: "I used to be a confirmed cigarette smoker, but now you could not induce me to touch one of them." He became, in the discharge of his official duties, familiar with the business of cigarette making, and in answer to a question as to how and of what they are made, he says: "Of all that is vile, and injurious, and mean,—cigar-butts picked up from the streets, barks of certain kinds, tobacco stems, and refuse are heaped together in one filthy pile and then saturated with opium, which gives the cigarette that soothing effect desirable to all smokers." He is of opinion that if all cigarette smokers could see what he has seen, they would abandon cigarettes altogether. We commend to such smokers his warning.—Sel.