, 1889-09-21
The Cigarette Doomed.

Observation III public places gives a.
tiSfactOry evidence that the use of ciga-
rettes is rapidly Oh. the decline. Whether
this is due to the. stringent laws passed in
many of the States against selling them
to minors, or that smokers. have come to
their senses and have taken warning from
their own experience and the unanimous
condemnation of smoking cigarettes by the
medical professiOh3 i0h whether the evil
Practice has began TO be looked upon as y
SdlscreditAble vice to be. only practiced i'll
secret, we kn0wfhOt but tits certain that,
rs compared With the past, very few olga.
rett6S are now. smoked in public. Cigar
dealers say that The sales Of:cigarettes have
8 fallen off enormously. The manufacturers
Of these nOxiOuS things have been com.
PEELED to advertise largely to prevent the
entire destruction of their business, and
about the only people who car now no
seen smoking the paper abom nations are
n few moon. faced juveniles who imagine
th8' cigarette smoking gives them a lite
rary aspect, or .whO ambitiOuSly aim at
appearing manly and graceful while poison.
ling thu atmOEl here about them or blowing
r4Ie offensive smoke through the windows
OF horse cars until rebuked. by the. CON
duCtOrs. Employers and business men
SCIICtdAAV AqNO RlIdNEu CNNAkcElkV tb w
position ito; those wlRI persist in the. ObjrC.
tiOnable practice, and young ladies' hav"
learned to understand chat the real reason
why their ro1AIg Metl smoke cigarettes is
THAT they'can smoke twenty Of them, vile
though they are, for the price al. n very
ciTeaV cigar. 1t will be veil for our youth
when the habit ;bcS0lneS wholly extinct. DR..
William u. Dudley, Professor of, Chemistry
inithe rVantlerb it,. University gives. the
results of Itcent careful analytical expert
sfnents nlade by him in his laboratory with
/ the sn1fr4Se 'Of4Eft ordinary cigarette. The
tests were thoroughly. scientific and con.
| elusive. The fact was demonstrated be-
f you'd the chance OF dombt or'queStion that
carbonic oxide is tho chief constituent of
cigarette smoke, if not All tobacco smoke,
and that it's Inhalation intO'the 'HiT passa-
gees apd<1ungs must Of necessity, be FIX
ceedinEfy deleteri0ua. Prot. Dudley refers
to published assertions that the. adultera.
ton Of tobacco. with opium and' Gavoring
drugs, and The" alleged .rreseI}ce Of arsenic
in the paper. are, the chtietCA uses of iheevll
effects OF. cigarette smoking; e. but" prnnOun.
ces them uil4al iafacto Org and insufficient
| as exptanali G0nR..f His Chem real tests, he
insists, have, demonstrated positively the
actual cause Of tiie. mischief namely, the
cigarette smokers absorption Of Che car
bonic o,ide and oth56f gases, causing
d~PVxiLation Of the blood. and thereby i'm
pairing it's power t., bu~iiId.up'the wasting
tissues of the body: The. tlgatetteI' habit
has of late years becone very common
in this country, 1t is one Of. those many
European importationS which do our poo
pie more harm than good: Many of our
young men, and some of them are neither
young nor inexperienced, are literally
burning opt of themselves the' best flement
of their manhood by sucking into their
systems the poison of physical and mental
degenefacy through the filthy cigarette.
g. Cigar smoking and pipe smoking are bad
enough aid perlfeioUs enough in all con-
science, but cigarette smoking is: abso-
lutely uicidal,-Amer."AMGlvs ~