Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-31
CIGARETTE SMOKING.
The Bad Habit Into Which the Youth
Of the Land are Falling.

From the Brooklyn Union.
"How many cigarettes will q person have
to buy to make them reach q mile in length.
If unburned?" asked Fulton street dealer in
tobacco of a reporter. When told that life was
too short to figure out such conundrums, the
young gentleman stroked his handsome mus
tache and said: "This is an easy puzzle.
Thirteen cigarettes will make yard, and as
there are !, 76O yards in mile, it will take %
$50 bits OF bleached paper containing a little
tobacco to measure out the distance of one
mile. TO smokers who use twenty cigarettes
day 1t will take them liza days to accom-.
plish the task, At cost of 114.4O. Now, you
said the amiable young man
49, rs cigarette smoking on the increase?' asked
the reporter.
-! am sorry to say that 1t is, for a more per-
nlclous passion does not exist than the love for
tobacco rolled up in this shape. The cigarette
who become welded to this fatal habit, but
what are we to do? A boy will come in and ask
ior q cigarette which costs him cent. We
we cannot refuse. a boy sent out of a factory
or shop by the workmen to buy tobacco for
their MONDAY smoke will skip our store and
purchase goods elsewhere If we refuse to sell
MIN ng-teaser for cent. Ofcourse he has TO be
accommodated, or else, through his influence,
as to the increase. In the month OF September
just passed, 81 $685. $50 pounds of tobacco were
made into cigarettes in New York city alone,
OF 1884. For the year ending October /, 1884,
341 ,935. $50 pounds of tobacco were manufac-
tured into cigarettes. and the total number of
POUNDS used In the same way the past year was
S93,376,O 69. During the same periods the to-
oacco turned into cigars was COG, 434 ,451
pounds for 1884 and 6O1, O41, $50 pounds for
be seen that while cigars have decreased
393,3O1 pounds cigarettes have increased
during the year 81, ALI, 400 pounds.
and decrease?"
Cigarette smoking has the same effect on
boys ana young men as opium has on grown
people. The tobacco which the cigarettes are
made OF is SO mild in taste that the smoke
from them can be drawn on the lungs or in
haled, which, in time, will have an injurious
effect upon the smoker. The inveterate
cigar for a cigarette, preferring the latter,
which, in bundles, cost only half cent
apiece. The price of the article ought
cites are made out of common material, and
cneap things are always bad. Some people
imagine that gum opium is used in cigarettes,
pound, which would be too expensive
to the cigarette manipulation. The white
paper is bleached by an arSenicaI prepa-
Heaven knows. Cigarettes ought to be stampsd
out OF existence, for they are sapping the life
Out OF our young men. Johnny Morrissey, the
son OF the ex-Congressman and prize fighter,
was Killed by excessive cigarette smoking, and
the youth of the land are falling by the wayside
day after day. What brands have got? Let
US see. Here are the ten most popular brands
In the following order: Sweet Caporal Old
Judge, Gross Cut, Richmond. Straight Cut. VAN
:ty Fair, sunny South, Opera Puts: Little Beau
ties, Caporal Halves and Sweet sixteen. The
two first named are manufactured in New You k,
and the Others In the south. viii you try one:"
asked the young man, and when his invitation
was politely refused, the affable cigarette dealer
concluded his remarks by saying: "Your head
is level. Never smoke a cigarette for if you do
you may lay the basis of a very bad habit