A CIGARET SLAVE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 29, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 39.

A CIGARET SLAVE.

A YOUNG man in New Jersey induced the police to lock him in jail, so he could not get cigarettes. He had begun smoking at the early age of ten years, and at twenty-six was a nervous wreck, with a will power so weakened that he was utterly unable to resist the clamorings of his appetite for cigarettes when it was possible to get them. Within the last three years their terrible effect has been painfully apparent—his constitution is now ruined, his once robust body is reduced to a skeleton, he is so nervous he can scarcely hold a glass of water, and his head aches incessantly. Again and again he had determined to drop the habit, but found to his dismay that he could not do it, as he no longer had the will power to obey the dictates of his conscience.

And still boys and men will trifle and fool with these infernal devices until they find themselves in the grasp of the destroyer, and are lost beyond the hope of redemption. Keep clear of the devil's death traps.—World's Crisis.