Tobacco Heart Among Cadets

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 20, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 40.

Tobacco Heart Among Cadets

In the examination of eighteen young men at Westfield last week for a West Point cadetship, all under twenty years of age, ten were at once ruled out as physically unfit, the medical examiner finding that more than half of the number had a "tobacco heart," such as cigarette smoking produces. The successful candidate was a boy who had been compelled to work in a mill, and could devote only his spare hours to books and study. The two lessons taught by these facts are so plain that it needs no additional words to enforce them.—Congregationalist.