Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-25
Solrnal altN Gourier.
Monday Morning, July e5. 1881.
Something About Cigarettes.
From an Interview With a Manu fac-
 turar. iI, fha hfladalnhia Tt,nas

From am Interview With a Ganufsac-
 turer, in the Philadelphia Times.
 There is 8 certain brand of cigarettes re- garded as the most saleable on the market, in which enervating drugs used to frightful extent. Millions of those cigarettes are sold annually. One house in New York sells on an average five hundred thousand day, and the profits of the proprietor of the brand are ssid to be third of million dollars year. Valerian and tincture of opium are extensive ly used in the manufacture of cigarettes. The tobacco, which is 8 Virginia production and naturally of pretty straw color, is rendered dark soggy and greasy by the process to which it is subjected. An experienced to- bacconist can detect the presence of valerian by the smell. The drugs impart sweet and pleasant flavor and have soothing effect, that in little time obtains fascinating con- trol over the smoker. The more cigarettes he smokes the more he desires to smoke just as is the case with one who uses opium. The desire grows into passion. The smoker becomes slave to the enervat- ing habit. To the insidious effect of the drugs is attributed the success with which this particular brand has met Unfortunately that success has caused an army of imitators to spring up, and every day almost some new brand of drugged cigarettes is placed on the market. By the use of drugs it is possible to make very inferior quality of tobacco pleas ant Manufacturers, therefore, put these vile things on the market at 8 price that makes it easy for the poorest to indulge in their killing delights, and boys and youths go in swarms for them. What is called stHa- vana favoring" has grown to be an important article of commerce. Thousands of barrels of it are sold everywhere. It is extensively used in manufacturing certain kinds of cigar cites. It is made from the tonca bean, which contains drug called mellolotis, deadly poison, seven grains ofiwhich will kill 8 dog. Imagine the effect which must result from S.,k~ k1a h&vz, after hour.
 The paper coverings are also a fruitful source of evil to the cigarette smoker. There are three sorts of paper in common use, made respectively from cotton and linen rags and rice straw. There is 8 fourth kind which is dipped into a solution of tobacco, that has lately been put upon the market. Cotton paper is made chiefly in Trieste, Austria, and the linen and rice paper in Paris. The first kind is manufactured from filthy scrapings of rag -pickers. Vile as it is, it is bought up in great masses by agents of the manufactur- CTS, who turn it into dingy pulp and sub ject it to a bleaching process to make 1t pre- sentable. The lime and other substances used in bleaching have very harmful infu- ence upon the membrane of the throat and | nose. Cotton paper is so cheap that thou | sand cigarettes can be wrapped with it at a | cost of two cents. Rice pape~ is not much
 used, as it IS rather more expensive. It is some times aduIterated with linen or cotton to | makesit cheaper. The average smoker can | not distinguish between the commonest and | best qualities of paper. One who knows something of the trade can, however, per | ceive the difference at glance. Tobacco | nized" paper is manufactured. It is common paper saturated with tobacco and marked in ! such way as to initiate the veins in the to- | bacco leaf very neatly. At a first glance it 1 would pass for the genuine article. It is
 used for making imitation ''all tobacco'' cig- | arettes and to considerable extent for
 wrapping the cheaper sort of cigars. By
 immersing the paper in water the tobacco
 can be readily separated from it.
 Arsenical preparations 1t is said, are used
 in bleaching most cigarette papers, and oil
 of creosote is produced naturally as a conse.
 quence of combustion. The latter has 6
 most injurious effect upon the membrane ot
 the throat and upon the lungs, and it is said
 to accelerate the development of consump
 tion in any one predisposed to the disease ! Papers used by many manufacturers were | burned for the satisfaction of the reporter l and pungent, stifing odor arose from al ! of them. One firm claims to have discovered ! a process of denuding cigarette paper of it ! deleterious effects. Little faith, however, i.
 placed in it's professions, and the paper useG ! by 1t smells as vilely when ignited as an,
 other. leading tobacco merchant, speak l ing of the fact that many thousands gt
 on complacently smoking paper-covered ci ! garettes, notW1thstandlng thelr wellknow1 ! pernlclous effects, said that cigarettes
 wrapped in pure tobacco leaVes while les
 injurious, would be much more expensive
 and that, besides, people in time grow tt
 prefer the pungent flavor of the burning pa
 per with the tobacco to that of the latte
 alone. number of tips or holders hav
 been devised with view to overcoming tn
 evil effects of tobacco in some degree by ab l sorbing the nicotine and preventing tho to
 bacco from coming into contact with tn
 lips. The result, however, has not been sat ! isfactory.