Have noticed that it lowers vitality, and lessons bodily vigor. It unfits the victim for concentrated effort. It unfits pupils for concentrated effort. They lose power of application, and become stupefied. It destroys moral sensibility and leads to other vices.
General debility is very apparent.
Earl Cummings, a bright young man of this city, who has for years been an incessant smoker of cigarettes died, this morning from blood poisoning. Middleton, N.Y., Feb. 12. Several pairs of eyes have gone down under the cigarette habit. One of the worst features of this habit upon boys is the vicious tendency in everything they do. They never go to school unless forced.