The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-06-23
Cigarette Poison.
EMPHATIC WARNING FROM DIR.
BARTHoLow-OTHER DoCToRs
AGREE WITH HIM.

Physicians are generally agreed that
cigarette smoking is the worst form
in which tobacco can be used, since
the paper is often poisonous, the to-
bacco artifcially favored, and the
smoke is inhaled into the lungs. The
Philadelphia Times publishes the
opinions Of several leading medical
men to the above effect. DIR. Pepper,
Provost of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, declares that cigarettes bring
on Indigestion and impaired vision
DIR. Risley, an oculist, says that he
has had two patients within week
who have been made blind by smoking,
and other doctors are equally emphat-
ic. As he is known in this vicinity,
we quote in full the utterance OF DIR.
Roberts Bartholow
It is high time that something were
done to put stop to this frightful
evil, which is stunting the growth and
running the health Of thousands OF
boys. It is just horrible to see these
boys-little fellows, many of them
not more than eight or ten years old,
not street boys, but well dressed and
carefully nurtured boys-gathered in
knots in some corner, where they think
they will not be observed, learning to
smoke Parents see their sons getting
thin and yellow and irritable, the
family doctor is called in, and without
going to the root Of the evil prescrlbes
tonics which do no perceptible good.
1.-THE prodigious increase of cigarette
smoking among boys in the last few
years." continued DR.. Bartholow, get
ting up from his chair and walking
up and down his handsome parlor In
the energy of his indignation, sis an
evil which will tend to the deteriora-
ton of the race if it is not checked.
But it is not hard to account for.
Boys are very initiative. They follow
the fashion with promptness and zeal
Cigarettes are the rage at Harvard
It is the correct thing to smoke these
poisonous little rolls of tobacco and
paper. Whatever is fashionable IN {
great school ike Harvard is sure In {
very short time to be fashionable
among young men and boys all over
the country. Another great cause Of
the mischief is that boys are very fonC
of initiating their elders Smoking
in public places ought to be discour
aged. There ought to be sentimen
created against it, and the press is th'
power to create such sentiment
Every man when he smokes In public
ought to think that he is encouraging
some boy to smoke. The boy viii
smoke a cigarette, imagining that h
will get less tobacco in that way, ant
ignorant of the fact that cigarett
smoking is the most pernicious form
in which tobacco is used. Tobacco
in any is a great injury to a growing
boy, and the fashion of inhaling th
smoke and then forcing it out throug
the nose is deadly in its effects. |
causes catarrh in the air passages
throat, and nose, and makes tn
smoker disgusting, as well as pun.
and stunted. You will find that thes
cigarette smoking youths have impair
ed digestions, small and poor muscles
irritable tempers, and lack of capac
ity for sustained effort of any KIND
and I believe you will find that the,
do not succeed in life. The men VIII
win are the men Of strong physique
A cigarette smoking boy will no
make strong man. These are som
of the evils which the individual bring
upon himself. But the mischief doe
not stop with the individual, but
transmitted to his offspring. Nervou
peculiarities are just as readily trans
mitted as physical peculiarities. Th
acquired irritability, imperfect devel
op1nent, and loss Of nervous force Q
the father is inherited by the chile
who in turn further impairs his healt
by the same process, so that in tn
course Of three or four generation
there must be great deterioration i
the race. The sale of cigarettes t
boys should be prohibited by law"
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