The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-06
no sMoKE CIGARETTEs.
a Tobacconist Instructs Customer
in the Art---InhaIing the smoke

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II ALWAYS prefer TO make my own
cigarettes. and then / know they con-
tain no opium or other poisonous in
credients,'' said a gentleman yester-
day as he stood in q cigar-store door
and delicately twirled some tobacco
and a small piece Of rice paper between
his fingers.
aThat,s where you and ] differ, said
the dealer, taking up the thread OF
conversation. ga man can get all the
cigarettes he wants and there won ne
a particle OF opium in them. Opium
is too expensive drug to allow OF its
being used in cigarette, package OF
which will cost Is cents. and the pub
lie generally seem to be approaching
this fact. Opium is put in cigarettes,
but it isn't every dealer who viii hans
die them They are higher priced,
and are only called for by those who
desire that kind of smoke. You ask
how it is put in. Well, it is pulEer-
/ lied. and scattered in that way. As
far as my custom goes, cigarettes are
more popular now than they were two
years ago. !"
Il don't see how people can smoke
the things. There is no strength to
them, and it is like putting that much
vapor," said listener who was en-
gagged in vigorously coaxing the smoke
through big 5-cent cigar.
That is because you don't know
how to smoke a cigarette, answered
the dealer, as he drew forth one and
proceeded to light it. Nov, if yoa
was to smoke a cigarette you would
put it in your mouth and allow the
saliva to moisten the end of it before
YOU had taken two puffs, and then you
would be compelled to bite off little
cuts of tobacco, which makes it very
annoying. Well, in the first place you
must learn to overcome that and hold
it between your lips. Then, to add to
the unpleasantness you would get out
| of it, you would proceed TO smoke itas
if you were smoking a pipe-that is.
take draw and blow 1t out OF your
mouth. A cigarette is not worth the
smoking that way. But if You should
persevere and learn to smoke this way
you would find out that cigarette is
as good as cigar
Then the dealer took draw and al
lowed the smoke to pass out through
the nostriis in two gossamer streaks,
and followed this by inhaling the
smoke and allowing it to fill his lungs
and then pass ont with the regular
respiration Then he took other in
halations and caused the smoke to pass
out of his mouth and be drawn
through the nostrils into the lungs,
only to pass out again through the
mouth He followed this by sending
wreaths of smoke floating across the
room, and then by blowing rings
through each other. until the man with
the cigar was amazed
won't that injure the lungsP" he
asked, in an excited way,
81 suppose the doctors would say so;
but SO they would say that it would
kill man to smoke cigars or chew to-
bacco, or do anything that there is any
pleasure in For my part don't care
what they say. l believe it will injure
the lungs no more than it does to in
hale the stencil from the Chicago river,
or the coal smoke from the thousand
and one buildings, CT the dust and dirt
that floats in the atmospheric. or the
poison which arises from filthy streets,
or numerous other things which the
doctors say nothing about"
That's So" answered the man as he
threH his cigar-stump into the street
and walked away.