Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-09-13
THE CIGARETTE DOOMED.
From the AmerIonn Annlrat

From the American Analyst.
Observation in public places gives salts.
factory 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 min
ors, or that smokers have come to their
senses and have taken warning from their
own experience and the unanimous con-
demnation Of smoking cigarettes by the
medical profession, or whether the evil
practice has begun to be looked upon as a
dlscreditable vice TO be only practiced in
secret, we know mott but it is certain that.
as compared with the past, very few cigar
cites are now smoked in public. Cigar
dealers say that the sales of cigarettes
has fallen of enormously. The manufac-
turers of these noxous things have been
compelled to advertise largely to prevent
the entire destruction of their business
and about the only people who can now be
seen smoking the paper denominations are
a few moon faced juveniles who imagine
that cigarette smoking gives the literary
aspect, or who ambitiously aim at ap-
pearng manly and graceful while poison
ing the atmosphere about them, or blow
ing the offensive smoke through the win
dows of hoise cars until rebuked by the
conductors. Employers and business men
generally have arrayed themselves in op-
position to those who persist IN the obi,c
tlonablP 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 cigar. 1t will be well for our youth
when the habit becomes wholly extinct.
DR.. Williams L. Dudley, professor of
Chemistry in the Vanderbilt University.
gives the results of recent careful analyti.
cal experiments made by him in his labor
atory with the smoke of an ordinary Gig
arctic. The tests were Thoroughly scientif-
&c and conclusive. The fact was demon
strated beyond the chance of doubt or
question that carbonic oxide Is the chief
Of cigarette smoke, if not all
tobacco smoke, and that its inhalation in
to the air passages ana lungs must be, Of
necessity, exceedingly deleterious. Prot
Dudley refers to published assertions that
the adulteration Of tobacco with opium,
the fiavoring drugs, aud the alleged pres
ence Of arsenic in the paper, are the chief
causes of the evil effect of cigarette smok-
ing, but pronouces them unsatisfactory
and insufficient as explanations. His
rh' mical tests he insists, have demonstra-
ted positively the actual cause of tie mis-
chief, namely, the cigarette smokers alb
'orptlon OF the carbcnc oxide and other
gases. causing deoxidaiion of the blood.
and thereby impairlng its power to build
ip the wasting tissues OF the body. The
,igarttLe habit has of late years become
very common in thus corutry. 1t is one of
hose many European importations which |
10 our people more harm than good |
Many Of our young men, and some of |
hem are neither young nor inexperienced, |
arc literally burning out Of themselves the
,est element OF their manhood by sucking |
nto their systems tbs poison Of physical
md mental degeneracy through the filthy
cigarette. Cigar smoking and pipe smok-
ng are bad enough and pernclous enough
n all conscience, but cigarette smoking Is
bsolutely suicidal.