Iron County register., 1885-11-12
CIGAREITE-SMOKiNG.
The Bad Habits Into Which the Youth oi
the Land Are Falling.

The Bad Habits Into Which the Youth of
the Land Are Falling.
'.How many cigarettes will n person
have to buy to make them reach mile
in length, if unburnedP' asked Fulton
street dealer in tobacco of a reporter.
When told hat life was too short to
figure out such colundrums the young
gentleman stroked his hands ,me mus
tache AMI said: This is an easy puz-
zle Thirieep cigarettes win make a
yard, and as there are l. .760 yards in a.
mile, it will take %, $50 bits of bleached
paper containing little tobacco to
measure out the distance of one mile.
To smokers who use twenty cigarettes
day 1t will take them 1, 144 days to ac-
compl sh this task, at a cost OF Sl14.4
Now. Won see how easily that problem
is worked out" said the amiable young
man.
'.Is cigarette-smoking on the in
.crease?" asked the reporter.
II am sorry to say that is, for
more pernicious passion does not exist
than the love for tobacco rolled up in
this shape. The cigarette habit means
death and destruction to those who be-
come welded to this fatal habit, but
what are we to do? A boy will come in
and ask for cigarette which costs him
.one cent. We don't sell to all boys, but
there are some whom we can not re-
fuse. A boy sent out OF q factory or
shop by the workmen TO buy tobacco
for their noonday smoke will skip our
store and purchase goods elsewhere If
we refuse to sell him lung-teaser for
cent. OF course, he has to be accom-
modated. or else. through his influence,
we may lose the custom of twenty men.
Now, as to the increase. la the month
of September 81, ,625, 7SO pounds of to-
baceo were made into cigarettes in New
York city alone. against 40 2lQ, lao
pounds in the same month of 1854. For
the year ending October 1st. 1884. ST.
935, $50 pounds of tobacco were manu-
featured into cigarettes. and the total
nuHher of pounds used IN the same
way the past year was 393, 376. 069. Dur
ing the same periods the tobacco turned
into cigars was COG, 434. 451 pounds for
1884. and 601. .041, $50 pounds for the
year ending October 1st, 1885. 1t Will
thus be seen that. while cigars have de-
creased 1898, 401 pounds, cigarettes
have increased during the year 81. 49,
490 pounds.
What is the cause of this wonderful
increase d decreaseP"
Cigarette smoking has the same eff
feet on boys and yonng men rs opium
has on grown people. The tobacco
which the cigarettes ale made OF is so
mild in taste that the smoke from them
can be drawn on the lungs or Inhaled.
which, in time will have an injurious
effect upon the smoker. The inveter-
ate cigarette-smoker will reject 1ne
imported cigar tor cigarette. prefer
ring the latter. which. in bundles. cost
only half a cent apiece. The price of
the article ought in itself be sufficient
proof that cigarettes are made out OF
common material, and cheap things
are always bad. Some people imagine
that gum opium is used in cigarettes,
but this is mistake. as that drug costs
six dollars a pound. which would be too
expensive TO the cigarette manipulator.
The white paper is bleached by an ar
senical preparation. and that is poison
Gus enough, heaven knows. Cigarettes
ought to be stamped out of existence.
for they are sapping the life out of our