The sun., 1884-02-24
Rad FOR THE SMALL BOZ
Cigarette Smoking Condemned by erybody
-Gsiur On for Years.

Many persons talk Of cigarette smoking by
boys as IL II were a new phase OF vice But tho
fact Is that New York boys have been addicted
to IL for many years. Cinnamon were tho first
to gather cigar stumps, dry them. and roll them
into cigarette form in any kind OF cheap cotton
or straw paper. Such cigarettes they could we'll
afford to sell to boys at the rate OF four. lve or
even half dozen for n cent. Now that busi-
ness has mainly. IL not altogether gono into
the hands Of Italians, who. however. instead Of
making the picked tobacco over into cigarettes.
generally sell it. dried and picked. to others
who arc manufacturers on very small scale.
and who vend tho cigarettes made from 1t both
to boys and to thoir own countrymen.
As matter of choice" a prominent retail
dealer in tho Sixth avenue said, for their ef-
feet on the health there is not much between
the Havana cigarette aud tho common Amcri-
can kinds ordinarily sold to boys, In one case
1t is the tobacco that is bad, and in tho other
the paper, The Cuban tobacco in the best
Havana cigarettes IL good but IL is rolled IN u
thick. rank. vile paper IA full Of creosute rs an
egg is full OF meat Then there are inferior
Havana cigarettes. made of American tobacco
sent over there and doctored TO initiate the
Cuban and others made VI tobacco pulp rolled
out into sheets like paper, stamped 10 perfectly
initiate leaves and then cut for cigarettes.
The latter process is carried on in Bremen. l
believe. In both these the .icnesss Of the to-
bacco is aided to the viloncss of the paper.
There is an Infinite variety OF goodness or bad
ness, among American cigarettes. some Of
thn pest brands are innda oi as mo tobacco.
rolled IN ~ pure and line paper as
any, in tho world. and when you como
to thcm u Is only an oren question Tor the doe
tors t. dec lie whether al tobacco in them IS
not Injurious. In the paper which is niade
from rice straw. and is SO delicate thar it
scarcely leaves pcrrsrtibn sign OF ash when
E,
is not enough ieIotHrious substance to do any
nnTm t those yS are y no, tine kpas & sId S to h9y
chopped stump or shoddy cigarettes SO lsup-
posed. We'll. there are others even worse. They
otherwise damaged and condemned: iDciorc!
over. irenu"ntly drvEssd 70 give flavor and
paper, They mus, be hurtful. / don't sell
| them. but know that majority ot dealers do,
| fpr they nr" cheap.
"Of The kinds | sell none retails bclow l3
| cents bunch of twenty. and from that M tn
! ~ ccnts. There is not enough profit in that
IN object. ana they cannot bo sold for less,
| without losing mop"v. But YOU can get at re-
tai prnn!y OF cigarettes. not made OF old cigar
| butts either for or even l. or as low IL cents
| bunch. Those huuch"s the little shopkeepcrs
| break omen. and the cigarettes they sell at the
boys Sr or rather sr t" chren % should m say DO
| you know that thnro are lots Of candy and toy
where large quantities of those cigarettes are
| sold in that wayS We'll. there are. l would
| hcartiiy 1aNof n law nroniDltlng the safe oil
| cigarettes. or tobacco in any form. to boys un-
| der Is years OF age II it could be enforced
| Time enough after that age to cultivate the
! habit. | understand thut there is such law in
/ New Jersey. but do not know how eiTectunlly II
| is enforced. | fear it would be difficult to make
| il operative on the small shopkeepers. who are
| tho worst offenders. Any law against cigar
| cites should take in chewing tobacco too fol-
| that is quite as commonly used by boys is MS
| much Of n nuisance to others. and is rs harm
| full. or perhaps more so. to the boys themselves
| 1t wouldn't I've Il bad scheme. II 1t could be car
ried out. to empower every adult citizen to cane
on sightany boy caught smoking"
| prominent physician said: " [ nm glad tC
know that something promises to be done tc
restrain the use OF tobacco among boys. 1t Is
! an evil the magnitude of which not many per-
/ sons seem to recognize. The use of nicotine
/ in excess is very injurious to adults. but inf.
ritey worse FOR youth. 1t stunts them men.
| tally and physically. And am rather inclined
| to think that it Injuries their moral perceptions
| also. An interesting fact. by the way was
| brought to light IL few months ago in the course
! OF medical investigation into the effects o.
| the tenement house cigar factory system. Il
appeared that in no case whero parents hHt
| been working in tobacco and exposed to its
| fumes from hotore their marriage. did the,
| have more than three chiidren-gcnerally one
or two. and very often none. Such as they hl,
were weaRlings. The inhalation OF the smoke
common among cigarette smokers. is the wors
| f.aln ra M hat laa ~ la u-aa