Health and Temperance

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 19.

Health and Temperance.

A CURIOUS THING.

“HERE is a curious thing,” said a doctor, as he walked through an Erie railroad train the other day. “This smoking-car seats fifty persons, and yet there is seldom a chance for a seat after the train starts out of New York. The men in this car have gone into the country at considerable expense and disadvantage for the sake of their health. The only time they spend at home is at night, and most of it in their bedrooms, in heated houses, where the air is very little different from that in a city bedroom. They spend from two to four hours of the only leisure they have in this car, where the air is so vitiated with tobacco that, though I am an old smoker, it makes me as sick in fifteen minutes as did my first cigar. It is safe to say that the health of these men would have been better guarded had they stayed in town.”—N. Y. Sun.