The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-08-14
TO SMOKE CIGARETTES.
A Tobacconist Iustructs a Customer
IN the Art---Inhaling the Smoke.

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Il always prefer to make my own
cigarettes, and then know they con-
tain no opium or other poisonous in-
gradients, said gentleman yester-
day as he stood in a cigar-storc door
and delicatoly twirled some tobacco
and small piece of rice paper between
his fingers.
"That's where you and differ" said
the dealer, taking up the thread of
conversation. "a man can get all the
cigarettes he wants and there won't be
a particle of opium in them. Opium
is too expensive drug to allow Of its
being used in q cigarette, package OF
which will cost Is cents, and the pub
lie generally seem to be appreciating
this fact. Opium is put in cigarettes.
but it isn't every dealer who win ham
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 liz. Well, it is pulver-
lied, and scattered in that way. As
far as my custom goes, cigarettes are
more popular now than they were two
years ago.
II don't see how people can smoke
the things There is no strength to
them, and it is like putting that much
vapor," said a listener who was en-
gagged in vigorously coaxing the smoke
through big 5-cent cigar.
That Is becSuse you don't know
how to smoke cigarette" answered
the dealer. as he drew forth one and
proceeded to light it. '.Now. il you
was to smoke o cigarette you would
sR IN onA Ollnvv fhn
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 il, you would proceed to smoke it as
If you were smoking pipe--that is.
take draw and blow it 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 a cigar"
linen the dealer took draw and al.
lowed the smoke to pass out through
the nostrils in two gossamer streaks,
and followed this by inhaling the
smoke and allowing 1t to till his lungs
and then pass out with the regular
respiration. Then he took other in
halations and caused the smoke to pass
out of bis 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.
Wont that iniure the hngs?" he
asked, in an excited way.
II suppose the doctors would say so
but 80 they would say that it woult
kill man TO smoke cigars or chew to
bacco, OF do anything that there is ANY
pleasure In. For my part. Tdon' { care
what they say. believe 1t will injurt
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. or the dust and dir
that floats in the atmosphere. or thu
poison which arises from filthy streets
or numerous other things which thu
doctors say nothing about"
That's so." answered the man as b.
threw his cigar-stump into the stree
and walked away.