Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-13
CIGARETTE SMOKING.
The Bad Habit Into Which Youth Of
the Land are Falling.
From the Brooklyn Union.


The Bad Habit Into Which Youth Of
the Land are Falling.
From the Brooklyn Union.
How many cigarettes will a per-
son have to buy to make them reach
a mile in length, if unburnedr
asked Fulton street dealer in to-
bacco Of a reporter. When told
that life was too short to figure out
such conundrums, the young gen
tleman stroked his handsome mus
tache and said: This is an easy
puzzle. Thirteen cigarettes will
make yard, and as there are l,
7G0 yards in mile. it will take Do.
$50 bits of bleached paper contain
ing little tobacco to measure out
the distance of one mile. To smok-
ers who use twenty cigarettes a
day it will take them 1,l44 days to
accomplish the task, at cost Of
$l14.40. Now, you see how easily
that problem is worked out said
the amiable young man.
is cigarette smoking on the in
crease ? asked the reporter.
Il am sorry to say that it is, for
a more peruiciOus passion does not
exist than the love for tobacco roll
led up in this shape. The cigarette
habit D. cans death and destruction
to those who become welded to
this fatal habit, but what are we
to do ? A boy will come in and ask
for n cigarette which cost him l
cent. We don't sell to all boys,
bat there are some whom we can
not 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 pur-
chase goods elsewhere if we refuse
to sell him a lung.teaser for a cent.
OF course he has to be accommodate
ed, or else, through his influence,
we may lose the custom of twenty
men. Now as to the increase. In
the month of September just pass
ed 81, l,G25,7s0 pounds Of tobacco
were made into cigarettes in New
York city alone, against 4O,2lO,l4
pounds in the same month of 1884
For the year ending October !,
1884, 3il,035,75O pounds OF tobac-
eco were manufactured into cigare-
ties, and the total number of pound
used in the same way the past yeaI
was 393,376,060. During the same
periods the tobacco turned into
cigars was COG, 434, 4,l5l pounds foI
1884 and Col, ,041,l ,l50 pounds fol-
the year ending October /, 1855
1t will thus be seen that while
cigars have decreased 5,303,3Ol
pounds cigarettes have increased
during the year 81 ,4lO, 400 pounds,
'What is the cause OF this Won
derful increase and decrease 2
Cigarette smoking has the same
effect on boys and 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 hailed, which in
time, will have an injurious effect
upon the smoker. The inveteratt
cigarette smoker will reject fine
imported cigar for cigarette, pre-
ferring the latter, which, in bun
dies, cost only a half cent apiece
The price of the articles ought in
itself be a sufficient proof that
C garettes are made out of common
material, and cheap things are al
ways bad. Some people imagine
that gum opium is used it cigar
cites, but this is a mistake, as tina
drug costs SO pound, which would
be too expensive to the cigarette
manipulation. The white paper II
bleached by an arsenical prepa
ration, and that is poisonous
enough, Heaven knows. Cigarette
ought to be stamped out of exist
ence, for they are sapping the lit'
out of our young men. Johnn.
Morrissey, the son Of the exCon
gresham and prize fighter, wa
killed by excessive cigarette smok
ing, and the youth of the land ar
falling by the wayside day afte
day. What brands have | got
Let us see. Here are the ten mos
popular brands in the following
order: Sweet Caporal, Old Judge
Cross Cut, Richmond. Straight Cut
Vanity Fair, Sunny South, Operi
Pufls, Little Beauties, Caporal Hal
YES and Sweet Sixteen. The tw,
first named are manufactured il
New York, and the others in tn
south. will you try OneP asked
the young man, and when his in
vitation was politely refused, thu
affable cigarette dealer concluded
his remarks by saying: you
head is level. Never smoke
cigarette, for if you do yon may la.
the basis of a very bad habit
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