Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-06-08

~ WHAT TPHYsIoIANss SAY ABOUT IT. GRowT
I sTUNTED, EYE-sIGHT DESTROYED,
- DIGESTION IMPAIRED AND THE
q RACE DETERIoRATED.
= From the PbilAdelphia Timesl
:. No one who has nose needs to b
= told that cigarette smoking Is the mos
offensive form yet invented for th
consumption of tobacco. There
something not altogether unpleasan
even to delicate olfactories about tn
20 fragrance of choice Havana cigar
Y The pipesmoker afflicts his friends
:, with nothing worse than q strong odo
n of tobacco, while the sin of the chewel
J. is principally that he defiles himself
+ But the cigarrette-smoker, and he il
!. generally q boy, pollutes the air wher
= ever he moves with the quintessencC
OF all nastiness IN smells. He is pub
7 lie nuisance. Whether he is smoking
t or not you can smell him. The sick
5 enlng odor seems to and in many cases
actually does oxude from every pore
0 in his enervated and listloss body. In
! the opera, the theatre, the church
and in the street his baleful presence
makes itself known often before he is
seen. This vice is of very recent and
} very rapid growth. Dealers who two
or three years ago did not sell a ciga.
rette now sell millions month, and
the evil is constantly growing, so that
IT is said new brand has been put on
the market every day since the begin.
ming Of the year. The habit is con.
fined almost exclusively to boys and
young men, aud the victim can be
readily detected not only by the nau.
seating odor which hangs about him
like deadly miasma, but by hissunken
eyes, hollow cheeks, from which every
shade of color, except a sickly yellow,
bas departed by his puny limbs, fiat
chest, STOPPING shoulders and languid
gait. He has, indeed, energy enough
left TO go out after the fall Of the cur.
tain at the theatre and take smoke
OF vile tobacco and doctored paper,
between the acts, but beyond that the
efforts Of the confirmed clgarette-smo.
ker are generally confined to lounging
seen bv tbe dozen 81 onv bnUr m 90" 90 ,Lo
dav on apy cornor sroI ;nv go ~
the nasty little rolls, drawing the smoke
with sort Of gasp down INTO the air
passages of the lungs and forcing it out
through the nose, and so absorbing
nicotine and the empyreumatic oil Of
paper and Transforming himself into q
walking accumulation of filthy smells.
There is q possibility that if the
young man or boy addicted to this
habit knew how he was blighting his
future life he would stop ii, and with
the view of giving him that informa-
ton The Tunes has, through its re.
porters, gathered the views of quite a
number of the leading physicians of
the city regarding the effect of ciga.
rette smoking on the young Every |
one Of the physicians whose express
ions are reported below is a recognized
authority on nervous, throat and lung
or heart diseases. While it may startle
the cigarette'smoker to find bow
warmly and unanimously his habit is
condemned, 1t will pay him to read the
interviews which follow.
sTUNTINd GROWTH AND running HEALTH
Iam glad to hear that The Time,
is going to take mn the snbiect - said
Dr. Roberts Bartholow of150o Walnut
street. well.know as n snocioI;st in oiI
nervous disorders uIt Is bigb ,imo
that something was done To nnt n ston
to this frightf1l evil. which Is stnnting
the growth and ruinjng the health of
thousands of bows. Its inst horrible
to see these bovs-little fSllows manv
OF them not more than eigbt or ION
wears old. not street. bovs bpt VOL
dressed and carefully nnrtpred boys
gathered in knots in somo corner
where thew think thew will not be ob'
served, learning TO smoke. Parents
see their sons getting thin and yellow
and irritable tbe family doctor Il sort
for and without going to tbo root I'd
the evil preseribes tonios which do No
pood
oTbe nrodioious incrooso or c,,o
rette smoking bovs in Tho Iost 3ew
wears - confined DR. Rart5oiow no, 30"
tins nm from bis chair and woII,,nds s
and down his bandsome norlor In ,hpp
energy of his indigno,iop d. an onI
which will tend 20 tbo dotoriona,iom Go
Of the race If II ia not chocLod pnt
IL is not hard 70 occornt ,or RI
arc vorv iroi,o,j,o III c,iio
fashion with nromntncss onJ .anI @
orc tho ranoo, Uor,orJ ao
II Is tho correct tbing 20 smoLo ,haso :
noisonons Iittlo rolls ~ ,oboooo , nnS :
ponor Whotoror "a EoshioaLo '"
greot school liko Uarvard - go ~ ~ " "
yerv short time 10 bo fosh;onaLJo III ~
vonng mon and bors oil orortho oo,n ",,n
try no,bor 80 49, m wv ne 'IJ ~ 'oun i
rbier IA ,hat hos oro u ,oru g. ca az ari i,'o
i,ating ,hoir oI2ors Sn51,io, ;onI y, ,L ,I
lio ,iooas onaLt 20 HS - ~ Pug
Tborc on,bt to ho so,,;,'an,,, ~ u,.ou,"suu n,as,
against n and tho nross 70 tho y ,,o'ro. easou
Io create sncb sontimont S"u E,,o.r
man when he smokes in nnbi;c ornht hty ~
tbinl, that be l. onconra ainn sor,to ~ ho,,
Ia smol,o Tho bov Will sr,Soi, oi5 B
rette imaginin, tIat bo vii go, 'S e. !
tobacco In that wav and i,norort 90
Ibe fact that cigarei,csnoe;nn ts ua I
most nernicions form in which ;ohoooo o u
d used Tobocco IN o,,, 60, so'Go' r
yreot iniurv to a grow;na hov IAN and % a." 4
ashton of i1balinS tbo sIol,c and ndI tbnn , a
orcing n ont th hSonoh tbo n"s,r;ia a"r inV !. o
Ieadly in its effects II causns o'i oa,arrh y
n The air nossogos tbroa, anJ ,' naaa : !