Among children and youth the use of tobacco is working untold harm. The unhealthful practices of past generations affect the children and youth of today. Mental inability, physical weakness, disordered nerves, and unnatural cravings are transmitted as a legacy from parents to children. And the same practices, continued by the children, are increasing and perpetuating the evil results. Page 329 is owing the physical, mental, and moral deterioration which is becoming such a cause of alarm.
Boys begin the use of tobacco at a very early age.
The habit thus formed when body and mind are especially susceptible to its effects, undermines the physical strength, dwarfs the body, stupefies the mind, and corrupts the morals. Little boys, hardly emerged from babyhood, may be seen smoking their cigarettes. Many workers in the temperance cause are addicted to the use of tobacco. Reckon up what you have thus spent during your lifetime. No human being needs tobacco, but multitudes are perishing for want of the means that by its use is worse than wasted.