How Cigarets Are Made by James L. Himrod

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 27, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 22.

How Cigarets Are Made.

By James L. Himrod

ONE night in San Francisco I went down in Chinatown to see the infamous opium dens. In a room not more than twenty feet square, down three stories underground, dimly lighted, where the air was so foul it almost overcame you, I found twelve Chinamen busy at work. In the midst of indescribable filth, they were rolling cigarets for the American boy to smoke. There was a

great pile of material in one corner of the room. We struck a match to examine it. We found it was cigar stumps and quids of tobacco, mixed with the vilest of filth.

I said then, would to God I could take every boy in our land into that foul den. I am sure we wouldn't have to legislate against the evil. All cigarets are drugged to render their effect more deadening to the nerves.—James L. Himrod.