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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 2.

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BOYS AND TOBACCO.

By Frances E. Willard

DR. SEAVER, of Yale College, physician and professor of athletics, is a man of science, who follows scientific methods in investigation.
He has been for eight years observing the effect of tobacco smoking upon the bodies and minds of Yale students, and he has just published a remarkable budget of statistics.
He informs the public that the students who smoke are inferior, in physical vigor and mental ability, to those who do not.
He says the smokers have less lung power than the non-smokers, less chest capacity, less bodily weight, and are of less height.
He says the muscular nervous power of the smoker is noticeably less than that of the non-smokers.
He says the smoking habit is disadvantageous to scholarship. Of those students who, within a given time, have received honorary appointments, only five per cent. were smokers.
His demonstrations seem to be influencing the minds of Yale students.
The doctor is able to report that seventy per cent. of the senior class do not smoke, that the leading athletes do not smoke, and that not a single candidate for the rowing crew is a smoker.
Young America, athletic, intellectual, and ethical, may well meditate upon Yale students.—Frances E. Willard.