A Youth-Killer | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 26.

A Youth-Killer.

THE cigarette is such. It is made generally of refuse tobacco, rolled in a prepared paper. The paper is injurious, if not poisonous, and the smoke of a large quantity of it would produce dangerous, if not fatal, illness. The paper is filled with tobacco made from the odds and ends of the cigar manufacturers, the stumps of cigars picked up in the street, and fished out of the sewers, old quids, and the dried leaves with which cigars are more or less compounded.

The other day we saw a very dirty, ragged old man, with his hat half full of stumps of cigars and half-chewed quids of tobacco, which he had picked up in the halls, bar-rooms, and on the side-walks, and out of the gutters. In reply to our question, what he intended doing with these loathsome things, “Sell ‘em, sir. They make cigarettes of them things.” These cigarettes are sold at very low prices, and are bought mostly by boys.—Exchange.