TOBACCO AND EDUCATION

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 26, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 13.

TOBACCO AND EDUCATION.

THE freshman class of Yale University this year is said to contain a smaller proportion of smokers than any previous class. Dr. Seaver, of the university, states that the class has a greater average lung capacity than any previous class. This increased average lung capacity Dr. Seaver attributes directly to the fact that so many of the class are free from the harmful effects of tobacco. As an evidence that the brains of these young men were brighter as a result of abstinence from tobacco, he states that their average age of entering the university was five months and six days less than that of the previous class. It would seem that no other argument was necessary to show to the young and the old alike that tobacco in any form is hurtful and only hurtful.