THE DEADLY CIGARET

Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Feb 14, 1906

THE DEADLY CIGARET.

THE statistics in regard to heart disease among boys, caused by the use of the cigaret, are simply appalling. One hundred and fifty boys were recently examined in Chicago as to their physical qualifications for positions on the various high school athletic teams, and nineteen of them were rejected because of the tobacco heart. In a preliminary examination for West Point, Pittsfield, Mass., one-fourth of the candidates were rejected for the same cause. The army and navy records present a fearful list of heart failures from the same evil habit. It is also a fruitful source of insanity, as many medical men testify. Every teacher of boys can adduce instances of young lads ruined mentally, morally, and physically by the terrible habit grown into a vice.

The cigaret fiend is the boy who has become a complete slave to his appetite. Once fairly in its grasp, he is stunted in development, lost to ambition, sunk to all appeals to honor; he will lie, steal, do anything to satisfy his insatiable cravings. Ninety-two per cent. of the boys in the Pontiac Reform School and in the John Worthy School are cigaret-smokers, and of these the majority are "fiends." The records of the reform schools for the girls show similar facts. —Selected.