A DESTRUCTIVE PRACTISE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 27, 1907

A DESTRUCTIVE PRACTISE.

There is probably nothing which is taking the manhood out of the young men more rapidly than cigaret smoking. It is declared that opium enters into the manufacture of cigarets, so that it creates not simply an appetite for itself, but a voracious and ever-unsatisfied appetite. One smokes all the time, or is inclined to. A report from St. Louis recently stated that one merchant was driven from business by insipient paresis as a result of smoking from 100 to 150 cigarets a day. "Cigarets," he said, "did it all. I want to

smoke night and day. I go all to pieces when I haven't a cigaret in my mouth." Yet notwithstanding such warnings as this, the thousands continue to use them, so stupefied by the poison that they can not appreciate the merciful warning and admonitions.