The Young Man's Worst Enemy
THE United States Tobacco Journal informs the world that the total number of cigarets made in this country last year was nearly 10,000,000,000, which takes no account of importations or of the cigarets rolled by the smokers, which would probably come to several billion more. But even without these, there were one hundred cigarets for each person in the United States — a formidable total, and enough to suggest that somebody is indulging to excess. Cigar smoking increased also, but not in proportion. The gain in cigarets over 1910 was 1,184,124,915. This is certainly appalling, considering that a young man had better be dead and buried than to be a confirmed cigaret smoker. We speak well within bounds. He can not be educated, he can not be trusted, his manhood is completely discredited. Physically, mentally, and morally, he is a carcass.