Tobacco’s Cruelty to Children

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 26, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 4.

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Tobacco’s Cruelty to Children

There are tobacco using men by the hundred in California, who are daily committing cruel outrages upon their own and other people's children. When the little innocents are sleeping, these ignorant men are filling the room with their noxious smoke, poisoning every breath they inhale, implanting seeds of disease and death, which are murderous in their tendency, and inflict curses upon them which last through life. When the children are up and awake they are subject to the same cruelties; and when one after another of the helpless little ones half murdered in this way falls a victim to some disease that would not endanger the life of a healthy child, and is carried out to its little grave, its parents wonder why the Lord