Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-09
The SEEDS OF DEATH.
How tho Small Boy Invites imbe-
City and Consumption.
Vile Character Of the Cheap Class Of Cigar
ettes-Tremendous Consumption Of
he HVrt'uI Articles by
Youths.

Mai y persons Talk o. cigarette snlOk-
Lg by boys As If it were q new phase Of
vice. But the fact is, that boys have
UIen addicted to it for many years.
Cinnamon were the first to gather cigar
stumps, dry them, and roll them into
cigarette form in any kind of cheap
cotton or stra n paper. Such cigarettes
they could well afford to sell to boys at
the rate of four, five, or even half q
dozen for q cent. Now that business has
mainly, if not altogether, gone into the
hands OF Italians, who, however, instead
II making the picked tobacco over into
cigarettes. generally sell it, dried and
,Jicked, To others who are manu- 'acLur-
els on very small scale, and who vend
lie cigarettes made from it both TO boys
~ u 10 their own cOuutTymOn.
Hopkins Choice,
Us matter of choice" a prominent
cg aGer said, "for their effect on the
health, there is not much between the
Havana cigarette and the common
American kinds ordinarily sold to boys.
In one case it is the tobacco that is bad,
and III the other, the paper. The Cuban
tobacco in the best Havana cigarettes is
good, but it is rolled in thick, rank,
vile paper, rs full Of creOsOte as all egg
is tut OF meat. Then there are inferior
havana cigarettes, made OF American
tobacco sent over there aud doct0red To
initiate the Cuban, and others made Of
tobacco pulp rolled out into sheets like
paper, stamped TO perfectly initiate
leaves, and then cut for cigarettes. The
latter process is carried Oh in Bremen,
believe. In both these the vileneS5 Of
the tobacco is added To the yilenGsss of
q { paper. There is an Infinite variety
Of goodness, or badness, among Ameri-
can cigarettes. Some Of the b5st brands
are made of as iiue tobacco, rolled IN as
pure and tIne paper as any III tue world,
and when you come To them 1t Is ouly
an open question for tie doctors TO de-
eide whether ak tobacco in them IS not
IjUriOHs.
Danger In the Cheap Kind.
"In the paper, which is made from
rice straw, aud is SD delicate that 1t
scarcely leaves perceptIble sign of ash
v hen lighted, and has no smell when
burning, there is not enough deleterious
substance to do any harm. But those
are not the kind sold to boys ordinarily.
You have already been told about chop
ped stump or shOddy cigaret eS? so L
supposed. Well, there are others even
worse. They are made Of tobacco that
has been moulded or otherwise damaged
and condemned, dOctOred over, fire.
queutly drugged to give flavor and
strength, and rolled in imitation rice
straw paper. They must be hurtful. ]
don't sell them, but know that ma
| jorlty of dealers do, for they are cheap.
! Practical ZIemedy.
"Ofthe kinds | sell none retail below
| Scents u bunch OF twenty, and from
! ILat UP to ~ cents. There is not enough
| profit IN that kind by selling at cent
| each to be any thing of an object, and
| hey cannot lie sold for less without los
ing money. But you can get at retail
| plenty Of cigarettes, not made Of old CT
| Esr butts either, for or even !, or as
| low as ) cents bunch. Those punches
| the little shOpkeepers break open and
| the cigarettes they sell at the rate OF
two, three or perhaps four for penny
| to bows, or rather to children l should
saw. Do you know that there are lots
of candy and toy shops in the neigh
| OorhoOd Of public schools were large
quantities of those cigarettes are sold in
| that way? Well, there are. would
heartily favor ailaw prohibiting the sale
| of cigarettes, or tobacco in any form, To
boys under 10 years Of age, if it could
be enforced. Time enough after that
age to cultivate the habit. | understand
| that there is such 3 law in New Jersey,
but do not know how effectually it Is
| enforced. fear it would be difficult to
make it operate on the small shOpkeep'
ers, who are the worst offenders. Any
law against cigarettes should take in
chewing tobacco, too, for that Is IS COM
monty used by boys, is much a,nuisauce
to others, and is as harmful, or perhaps
| more so, to the boys themselves. Ii
wouldn't he bad scheme, lift could be
carried out, to empower every admit
citizen to cane on sight any boy caught
smoking"
A Physicians Views.
4 prominent physician said: al am
| glad TO know that something promises
| to be done to restrain the use of tobacco
among boys. 1t is an evil the msgni.
| tude Of which not many persons seem
to recognize, The use of nicotine in eX-
cess is every injurious to adults, but in
finitely worse for youths. 1t stunts them
mentally and physically. And / am
rather inclined to. think that it injuries
their moral perceptions also. An inter
esting tact, by the way, was brought to
light few month ago in the course OF
a medical investigation into the effects
of the tenement house cigar factory sys-
tenn. 1t appeared that in no case where
parents had been working In tobacco
and exposed to its fumes before their
marriage, did they have more than
three ENTHUSIASTICALLY one or two,
and very often none. Such rs they had
were weakliDgs. The inhalation Of the
smoke, common among cigarette smok-
IT'S, is the worst feature of that use of