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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 12, 1907

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December Number of Life and Health

The December number of Life and Health is doubtless the best and most practical number that has ever been issued. It is a special Tobacco number. Any one who likes tobacco will be interested in it, and will be especially benefited by it. Those who do not use tobacco will recognize in it a timely message for this age.

Dr. D. H. Kress, superintendent of the Washington Sanitarium, presents “The Tobacco Habit and Race Degeneracy,” giving facts and figures showing the influence tobacco exerts in accomplishing this degeneracy.

Another practising physician, who has made a study of the general effects of tobacco, gives in this number a strong article on the effect of “Tobacco in the Brain and Nervous System.”

Lucy Page Gaston, superintendent of the National Anti-Cigarette League and editor of the Boy Magazine, portrays some of the “Perils of the Cigarette.”

“An Appeal to Christian Workers,” by Mrs. E. G. White, calls upon parents and teachers for a better personal example in the use of stimulants before the present and future generations.

Dr. Leadsworth, in his “Consulting Room” talks, gives an example of the effects of cigarettes upon a young man of twenty; cites the evil effects of even the fumes of tobacco upon other members of the family; proves that tobacco poison renders the majority of its victims color-blind; explains the evil effects of tobacco in the schools, and shows that the tobacco habit is an inheritance in many cases, etc.

Under the title “Reminiscences,” Mrs. Fitch, the editor of the Healthful Cookery Department, gives some examples of the effects of tobacco using that are more convincing than scientific experiments.

Mrs. Wilcox, editor of the Mothers’ Department, makes a strong appeal for “Mother Watchfulness” over boys and girls, and an earnest effort in fortifying them with a true knowledge of the evils of the tobacco habit before it is acquired.

Dr. Lauretta Kress furnishes valuable suggestions based upon personal experience in the prevention, the treatment, and cure of the tobacco habit.

The Current Mention Department is filled with convincing testimonies under the following titles: An English Physician on the Tobacco Habit, Railroads and the Cigarette, No Poison More Poisonous, Save the Cigarette Boy, Tobacco the Great Producer of Degeneracy, The Criminal Cigarette, Take No Risk, The Cigarette in London, Cigarettes and Boys, etc.

The Medical Missionary Department describes minutely the methods of preparing and smoking opium in China, and contrasts the opium habit and its deteriorating effects with that of the cigarette habit in other countries.

The Questions and Answers Department contains some good practical sense in answering questions on the use of tobacco as a preventive of apoplexy, Smoking and Consumption, Are Cigarettes Worse for Boys than Cigars Are for Men? Wine and Tobacco—Effects on the Singing Voice, etc.

The Editorial Department contains a fair and unbiased discussion of the effects of tobacco upon the human system, under the following topics: Why Are the Poison Habits So Popular? Is the Tobacco Habit Always Detrimental to Health? A Moderate View of the Tobacco Evil, From a Friend of Tobacco, Insidiousness of the Habit, Is Tobacco Injurious to Adults?

In addition to the above, this number of Life and Health gives quotations from many prominent educators, physicians, and popular journals upon the deteriorating effects of tobacco. This number of the journal will prove to be of great value to the reading public. While its cost is only ten cents a copy, its real value can not be estimated.