Juvenile Smoking | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1879

Juvenile Smoking.

THERE is no valid excuse for juvenile smoking. A man pleads habit, the soothing effects of tobacco, and so on. But a boy smokes because he sees others do so; and because he looks upon smoking as a manly practice. He knows that it does him no good; indeed, in the majority of cases, boys know that their first attempts at smoking made them very ill, and the tolerance of the effects of tobacco was obtained only after long practice and many disagreeable sensations. The mental power of many a boy is certainly weakened by tobacco-smoking. The brain under its influence can do less work, and the dreamy feeling which is produced tends directly to idleness. For all reasons it is desirable that our rising generation should be abstainers from tobacco. —Dublin University Magazine.