Leprosy Traced to Cigarette Smoking

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 1, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 1.

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Leprosy Traced to Cigarette Smoking

From the newspapers of San Francisco we learn that 195 cases of leprosy have been traced by physicians to the smoking of cigarettes that were made by Chinese lepers, and an organ of the tobacco trade admits that “few things could be more hurtful to boys, growing youths, and persons of unformed constitutions, than the use of tobacco in any form.”