SERIOUS FACTS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 10.

SERIOUS FACTS.

Senator Hill, of Georgia, went to a premature grave after terrible suffering from cancer of the tongue. Cause—tobacco.

The life of Thomas Dunn English, eminent poet and physician, was barely saved by a torturing operation in removing a cancer. Cause—tobacco.

General Grant died too young with cancer. Cause—tobacco.

The tobacco habit threatens to exclude men from some important industries. A woman holds the position of inspector of colored glass in New York, her sense of color being more perfect than any of her male competitors.

Lieutenant Greeley says of those who went with him to the North Pole, of the seventeen of his men who died, all were smokers but one, and he died last. Of the seven survivors, none were smokers.

The tobacco habit is injurious to health, it is an expensive habit, and it is a bad example; therefore it ought to be shunned.—Selected.