Tobacco Smoke and Children
THERE are tobacco-using men by the hundred in California, who are daily committing cruel outrages upon their own and other people's children. When the little innocents are sleeping, these ignorant men are filling the room with their noxious smoke, poisoning every breath they inhale, implanting seeds of disease and death, which are murderous in their tendency, and inflict curses upon them which last through life. When the children are up and awake they are subject to the same cruelties; and when one after another of the helpless little ones, half murdered in this way, falls a victim to some disease that would not endanger the life of a healthy child, and is carried out to its little grave, its parents wonder why the Lord "has seen fit to deal so hardly with them," and they go on and kill another the same way. There are parents who sin in ignorance and recklessness in this way, who would commit a less cruelty if they killed their children at once with a dose of laudanum.—Rescue.