Young Lad's Death from Cigarette Smoking

S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 10, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 2

Young Lad's Death from Cigarette Smoking

THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette gives this account of a young lad who died from the excessive use of cigarettes: “He concealed his habit from his parents until taken sick, and then it was too late. The heart ceased its functions from sheer weakness. This should be a warning, but it will not be heeded. Every cigarette smoker, like every toper, will conclude that it is none of his funeral, and will persist in destroying the nervous system. When repeated warnings will not cure the folly of pointing supposed unloaded guns and pistols at people ‘just for fun,’ what can be expected as the result of the death of one lad from the vile cigarette habit?”