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ANALYSIS OF A CIGARET

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 41.

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ANALYSIS OF A CIGARET.

THE following is the result of an analysis of a cigaret, made recently by a physician: "The tobacco was found to be strongly impregnated with opium, while the wrapper, which was warranted to be rice paper, was proved to be the most ordinary quality of paper, whitened with arsenic. The two poisons combined were present in sufficient quantities to create in the smoker a habit of using opium without his being aware of it, his craving for which can only be satisfied by an incessant consumption of cigarets." These facts would be sufficient to stop the manufacture of anything less insidious in its influence. But smokers will smoke on to the death.—Selected.