Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
Cigarette Smoking.


raised a warning cry against the
stupid and pernicious habit of cigar
cite smoking among the small boys
of this country. Few parents know
how fearfully the practice is increas-
ing in every city, town and hamlet
on this coast. Several eminent
physicians have gone so for as to
declare that those youths who are
addicted to this habit, are laying the
sure foundation of premature dis
ease and uptimely death. They
will not have enough humanity left
in them when they become of age,
to mako the poorest apologies for
men. Many of them will not grow
up to medium stature, for the rea-
son that the processes that supply
physical growth are already stopped,
and the most dreaded forms of par
alysis are liable to be developed at
any time. Why it is that the facul-
ties of colleges and universities place
no restraint upon their students, re-
lative to this matter, is passing
strange. A college is an incorporat-
90 institution, and empowered to
make and enforce all the laws re-
quisite to the welfare of its students,
and if neither trustees nor faculties
are disposed to exercise this privi-
lege, then the people who represent
its patrons, should demand that an
immediate and judicious change be
made in it's executive affairs. 1t is
we'll known fact that consumption
is pre-eminently the disease that car
ries off the Spanish element of both
sexes in California. This fact is at
tributed by their own physicians, to
the inveterate habit of smoking cigar
cites. The burning of the paper
wrappers causing, it is alleged, nine
ten.hs of the mischief.
If the practice of smoking q vile
mixture of poisonous paper and to-
bacco is SO disastrous among the
Spanish people of California, who
do not usually contract the habit un-
til mature age, what shall we say of
persistent cigarette-smoking among
boys of tender years? An analysis
of the paper which is wrapped
around the tobaccos in the manufac-
ture of cigarettes, discloses the pres
ence of various baneful agents, the
poisonous fumes of which are taken
into the mouth, throat and nasal
passages, besides being freely cir
culated throughout the whole sys-
tenn. While these fumes do not kill
the smoker outright, as noxious
gases would do if inhaled, they are
more insidious in their operation
upon the physical economy. The
list of diseases contracted by cigar
cite smoking is an ominous one.
Among some of the most common
and prevalent effects, may be noted
dizziness, loss of memory, morbid
appetite for stimulents, want of con-
troll of the voluntary muscles, gen.
eral breaking down of the nervous
system, stupor of the reasoning fac
ulties, and, more dreadful than all
else, paralysis.
The number of young men who
enter college and break down in
health, during the first or second
year, is fearfuily large, and the COM
mon reason assigned for their failure
is that the course of study is too Sc
we're. In nine cases out of ten, how
ever, the vigor of early youth and
manhood has been criminally and
shamelessly frittered away in the
follies we have been describing.
Cigar smoking is bad enough in its
way, especially in cost, but cigar
cite smoking invites a disease that
never surrenders and q death that
does not tarry. The facts which
we have here attempted to por-
tray are we'll known among the
medical profession, and if it's men,
bers neglect to warn the people
against the ravages of the practices
to which we have alluded, they are
themselves criminally derelict in
their duty.
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