The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-02-16
DANGER In SMOKING.
Need of an Invention That Will
Make Tobacco Harmless.

Need of an Invention That VIII
Make Tobacco Harmless.
Experience Of a Man Who Used Cigar
cites, Cigars, Meerschaum and
Corn-Cob with Very Little Salts
faction to Himself.
When lived in London travelled every
day some distance on the underground rail-
way, writes Luke Sharp in the Detroit
Free Press. got on at Turnham Green sta
ton, in the western suburbs, and got out at
the Temple, right in the heart OF the me-
tropolis. This was in the morning. In the
evening, naturally, / reversed the Journey
The morning journey was the up trip, and
ON that one had to climb g stairway to get
to the train, and when the Journey was I'm
ished found myself down under ground
When the down journey was ended it left
me away up on station perched on an en-
bankment. It is wonderful the curious ex-
perences person can have in place like
London.
The Journey under ground never quite
suited nv taste for travelling. The scenery
in the tunnel is not at all beautiful nor
even interesting. But what most objected
to was certain su]phuriness in the at
mosphere which seemed to irrltate my
breathing apparatus. asked tho COM
pany to remedy this, but they claimed that
that was the style of air demanded by the
majority of their passengers, and they de-
clined to change it merely to obhge one
cautious man, who would probably growl no
matter what they did. They said that if
wanted mountain air I should go to
Switzerland pointed out to them that it
was very convenient for a person living IN
Switzerland to come to his Office in the
Strand every morning at nine o'clock, but
that made no impression on them, and as
had not time that year to build an elevated
road to suit my own requirements had to
out up with the underground, although
managed to give the company good DEAL
of trouble with my complaints.
This rountiabout introduction is for the
purpose of showing how, annoyed by the
smoke Of the engines, / took to smoking my
self. A physician whom suspect of having
a grudge at me recommended me to smoke
while on the underground journeys, and al
though up to that time / had never
smoked q Whit in my life, took to the
apparently mild and harmless cigarette.
thought could get as little OF the effects
Of tobacco out Of a cigarette as out Of any
form the weed assumes, and still adhere
to that opinion.
Without intending to brag in any way,
may say that by perseverance and strict at
tention TO business, soon augmented my
ability as a cigarette consumer. began in =
small way, smoking three or four cigarettes
day, and by industry I got to be regular
wholesale establishment, burning up from
rs C;r
hours Naturally was very proud OF this
and came to be very much respectfully
dealers in tobacco-and they pointed to me
as an example OF what might be done by
dogged adhesion to the work on hand.
Not feeling quite up to the mark, I one
day consulted my regular physician, He
felt my pulse and shook his head gravely.
When my doctor shakes his head it means at
least five dollars out Of my pocket, 50 be.
gan to feel alarmed.
600 you smoke2" he asked.
Eyes,
"What gu
"Cigarettes."
elbow many a day -
About sixty three"
"Well, they're killing you; you'll have to
stop"
"Is tobacco 80 injurious as all that gu
"Tobacco? NO. But cigarettes are. You
can use all tue tobacco You want-but take
it in the form of good CIGARS
Well. switched off on the cigar habit.
I appIed to the smoking of cigars the same
habits Of earnest application that had been
so sieualy successful with the cigarettes.
Next consultation had on the subject Of
health with the M. d. <sauls many he said:
"Smoke any!''
ga little''
"What 81 ~
"Good cigars"
stHow many O.
"Oh five or six a day"
"Well, you'll have to stop that, It's kill
ing YOU"
"Why, L thought you said that tobacco
was ~
ooh, tobocco's all right but not in the form
of cigars Take to pipe. That's the only
rational way OF using tobacco"
So i began s'hitting the pipe" Got N.Y.
self nice northumberland beautifully
end began to color it, When tackled
the doctor afterwards he said:
fuse tobacco at all2''
eyes"
''How2'
"1n pipe"
"What sort Of pipsg''
tsNice meerschaum."
s'Let's see it's
Itook the pipe out Of it's silk-lined case
and he looked at it and then at me in
plying way.
':No harm in tobacco, is there?"
sob, no harm in tobacco" he said. "Of
course not But should think that a man
of sense would see that smoking the same
pipe is most dangerous occupation. It
gets saturated with nicotine and so you'll
have to quit this pipe OR write cut receipt
for your life insurance"
swell, what am to do2 Chew or snuff9'
s'Neither Take a cheap pipe that you can
throw away. Buy a new Que every week. !"
then took to the corn-cob plpe-retail
price five cents. 1t has a label on it that
reads: "Missouri Meerschaum.' 1t is made
by some patent process from the cob of
Indian corn, and it is very light and porta~
BILE. took great comfort out OF the corn
cobs. They are vanished on the outside,
aud when you get a good fire started this
varnish begins to sizzle and fume and I'LL
up the room with delightful burnt leather