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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 25.

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BOY SMOKERS.

MAJOR HOUSTON, of the marine corps, who is in charge of the Washington Navy Yard barracks, is authority for the statement that one-fifth of all the boys examined are rejected on account of heart disease.
His first question to a boy who desires to enlist is, "Do you smoke?"
The surgeons say that cigarette smoking by boys produces heart disease, and that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the rejection of would-be apprentices on account of this defect, comes from the excessive use of the milder form of the weed.
I wish every boy could read it. I am shocked at the number of young boys I see smoking every time I go out, some of them under twelve years old, and all under sixteen. Boys, what do you smoke for? Do you think it is manly?
It is more manly not to smoke. I know a great many gentlemen do smoke but I think not one of them would advise you to do so. But if you must smoke, get a clay pipe and smoke it. It will be much better for your health than those vile cigarettes, and I think it looks quite as well.—Western Watchman.