Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-13
FORTY CIGARS ADAX.
Men Who Smoke Great Quantities
Tobacco and Live to an Old Ape

Meh VINO Smoke Great Quantities of
Tobacco and Live to an Old Age.
1--WE have customers who buy three
boxes of cigars a week for their own use ;,
said a ci gar store clerk to IA New York
.HOrNiRg JOurRdt reporter. "This would
represent an average of forty odd cigars a
day, but | do not believe it is possible to
smoke so many in one day. They prob
ably give good many away. / know
plenty Of men who smoke twenty to
twenty-five cigars day the year round
and it doesn't seem to hurt them any.
Our biggest smokers are Americans
Cubans smoke a great deal, but it is their
little cigarettes, which are half tobacco
and half paper. They couldn't stand i'm
cigars what have often known American
gentlemen to smoke" Cuban dealer
in cigars in University place was asked
what he thought about the relative merit
of cigars and cigarettes and the effect OF
both.
"Well," he said, IL would sooner sell
cigars, of course, because one cigar costs
as much as a whole package Of cigarettes.
| know that in this country there is n
great deal of prejudice against cigarettes.
and it is all humbug. or course thew
hurt children. Their organs are not
strong enough to stand the strain. ana
then there are some very bad cigars made
in America-WOrse than poison. I think
the strain of the cigarette when the smoke
is inhaled is about equal to one cipor
smoked in the ordinary way. | don't be-
lieye cigarettes can kill or even iniure a
full grown man. Look at my country
men. They begin to smoke cioarettos
when they are II years old. ANY Cuban
gentleman smokes two, three or fou.
packages day, and the Cubans live as
long as any other people. / know plenty
of gentlemen sixty and seventy years Of
age who never have a cigarette ont of
their mouths except at meals. and they
always inhale the SMOKE. These are
paper cigarettes, too. But our paper is
specially prepared, and don't think can
do any harm.j The other day | had a friend
die. He was siXty-five years of ace. He
caught cold bathing, and died of in1am-
matOry rheumatism. The last thing he
did was to ask for a cigarette. When he
was well he smoked three packages a day.
just you calculate what that was. begin.
ming at twelve years Of age"
"SiXty cigarettes a day for fifty-three
years OF 800 days each. Total, /. I66. 700
~ ou see here was a healthy. strono
man who smoked 1, ,160, 900 cigarettes. and
he died at a good old age, really from ac.
cldent. l never knew him TO be sick q
day. But there was nothing eXtraOrdi
nary about him. There are thousands of
Cubans who do just the same and tbev
are healthy men. l have remarked, how
ever, that the climate here is not so good
for cigarette smoking, and that our peo-
pie cannot smoke as much as they do at
home. l think it is the dryness Of the air
and the throat becomes parched more
easily. Spaniards and Frenchmen smoke
cigarettes just as much as the Cubans. and
they seem to be healthy enough. | have
some Cuban and Spanish lady customers
who smoke over a package of HonnandeZ
or Cubans every day. 1t doesn't hurt
them that l see, and they do it not i'm
secret, but with the knowledge of their
try, you know. / see they have passed n
law in New Jersey forbidding dealers to
sell cigarettes to boys under sixteen wears
of age. That is a good thing. These
boys usually come in to buy one cigarette
at time, and they are a bother. / wish
they had such law here"