CIGARETTE SMOKING

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 37.

CIGARETTE SMOKING.

A NINETEEN year old New Jersey boy died not long ago from excessive use of cigarettes. He began to smoke them when eight years of age, and the habit so grew upon him that he could not shake it off. A few weeks ago he became so sick that he had to cease work, and grew weaker every hour. From his former healthy, robust form he dwindled to a skeleton. As he died, he turned to those beside him and said, "Tell the boys that cigarettes killed me; let them profit by my sad experience." A moment later he was dead.

Frankfort, Kentucky, prohibits the entire sale of cigarettes.

Over 400 women became insane last year from smoking cigarettes.

About one-half of the youth in the schools of Massachusetts use tobacco.

In Georgia it is a crime to give or sell cigarettes to a boy or girl not of age.

Over 2,000,000,000 cigarettes were used in the United States in 1888, or 36 for each man, woman, and child.

Two-thirds of the girls working in cigarette factories become sick after working six months, and one in five dies.

Professor Laffin declares that all cigarettes contain nicotine, saltpetre, and opium. This last should startle us. Opium is the giant curse of China, and is a habit more to be dreaded than either liquor or tobacco. It looks as if the old enemy was fixing an opium bait for our boys, in the innocent looking cigarette. Don't use them, boys.—The Magnet.