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The Cigaret’s Fatal Power

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 21.

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The Cigaret’s Fatal Power

The power of the cigaret to bind its slaves was strikingly illustrated the other day by an incident in San Francisco. A man had stripped himself of his clothing and anointed himself with turpentine for rheumatism; but he seemingly could not wait for the body to absorb the turpentine or until he was dressed until he lighted a cigaret to smoke. The turpentine caught fire, converting him at once into a living torch. He was fatally burned before help could save him.