Tobacco: An Unmitigated Curse

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 26, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 33.

Tobacco: An Unmitigated Curse

Ten billion (10,500,000,000) cigarets made in one year by three American firms, and we know not how many by others! Ten billion "coffin nails" in American manhood! Six manufacturers made 220,000,000 cigars apiece last year. Into these manufactured products went 335,700,000 pounds of tobacco, upon which revenue to the amount of $26,007,000 was paid. But at what a price! A fruitful source of disease, breeder of drunkards, a sapper of the finer instincts of body and mind, there is not one good thing to say of tobacco. It is an unmitigated curse. It would be cheaper for the nation if the money spent for the weed were burned and tobacco abolished.