The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-09-06
THE CIGARETTE O N
a merican ANALYST.

American Analyst.
Observations in public places
gives satisfactory evidence that
The use OF cigarettes is rapidly on
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 ex-
p%erience and the unanimous con
demnation Of smoking cigarettes
by The medical profession, or
whether the evil practice has be-
gun TO be looked upon as a discred-
liable vice to be only practiced IN
secret, we know not but it is GER
tam that, as compared with the
past, very few cigarettes are now
smoked in public. Cigar dealers
say that the sales of cigarettes
have fallen off enormously. The
manufacturers of these nuXious
things have been compelled to adj
verlise largelyto PREVENT The entire
destruction Of the business, and
about the only people who can now
be cen smoking the paper abomi-
nations + a few mOon-faced ju-
veniles who imagine that cigarette
smoking gives them a literary as
pect, or who ambitiOuSly aim at
appearing manly and graceful
while poisoning the atmosphere
about them, or blowing the often
sive smoke through the windows
Of horse cars until lebuked by the
conductors. Employers and bust
ness men generally have arrayed
themselves in opposition to those
who persist i'll the Objectionable
practice, and young ladies have
learned TO understand that the real
reason why their young men smoke
cigarettes is that they can smoke
twenty of them, vile though they
are, for the price of a very cheap
IL will be well for our youth
when The habit becomes wholly
extinct. DR., William l.. dudley,
Professor of Chemistry in the Van
derbllt University, gives the results
Of recent careful analytical expert
ments made by him in his labora-
tory with the smoke of an ordlna-
~ cigarette. The tests were thor
scientific and conclusive.
The fact vas demonstrated beyond
he chance of doubt or question
hat carbOnic oxide is the chief
constituent of cigarette smoke, i'll
not all tobacco smoke, and that lis
inhalation into the air passages
md lungs must, of necessity, be
exceeding deleterious. Prof. Dud-
ey refers TO published assertions
hat the adulteraiion of tobacco
With opium and flavoring drugs,
md The alleged presence of arsenic
the paper, are the chief causes
# the evil effects of cigarette
mOking, but prOnOunces them un-
satisfactory aud insufficient as ex-
,lanatiOns. His chemical tests, he
nsits, have demonstrated positive
y the actual cause OF the mischief,
the cigarette smokers alb
OrptiOn of The carbonIc oxide and
Their gases, causing deoxidation Of
he blood, and thereby lmpairing
IS power 10 build up the wasting
Of the body. The cigarette
abit has of late years become
cry common in this country. IL
mi Of those many European i'm
ortations which do our people !
lore harm than good. Many of
ar young men, and some of them
neither young nor Inexperi- \
need, are literally burning out of
lemselves the best element Of Q
leir manhood by sucking into =
leir systems The poison of physi- b
j and mental degenerscy through \
Ie filthy cigarette. Cigar smoking q
I'd pipe smoking are bad enough
I'd peniciOus enough in all CON-