St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-29
!, DANGER in SMOKING.
Need Of an Invention That Will
Make Tobacco Harmless,

Make Tobacco Harmless,
Experience of Man Who Used Cigar
cites, Cigars, a Meerschaum and q
Corn-Cob with Very Little Salts
d faction to Himself.
When I lived in London / Travelled every
day some distance on the underground RAJ
way, writes Luke Sharp in the Detroit
Free Press. got on at Tcinham Green sta
ton, in the western suburbs, and got out at
the Temple, right in the heart of the me-
t-opolis 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 stairway to get
to the train, and when the journey was fin
ished found myself down under ground.
When the down journey was ended it left
me away up on station perched on an en-
bankment. 1t is wonderful the curious ex-
periences person can have in place like
London.
The journey under ground never quite
suited my taste for travelling. The scenery
in the tunnel is not at all beautiful nor
even interesting. But what most objected
to was certain sulphuriness in the at
mosphere which seemed to irrltate my
breathing apparatus. I asked the 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 oblige one
. captious man, who would probably growl no
matter what they did. They said that if
wanted mountain air I should go to
Switzerland. Ipointed out to them that it
was very convenient for 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
put up with the underground, although
managed to give the company a good deal
of trouble with my complaints.
This roundabout introduction is for the
purpose of showing how, annoyed by the
smoke of the engines, took to smoking my
self. A physician whom I.suspecL of having
a grudge at me recommended me to smoke
while on the underground journeys, and al
though up to that time I had never
smoked a Whit in my life, I took to the
apparently milF and harmless cigarette. l
thought could get as little of the effects
of tobacco outtof a cigarette as out of any
form the weed, assumes, and still adhere
to that opinion.
sAoAo0n Ah SSANAhS w "a Of Al Guy way
may say that by perseverance and strict at
tentT0n to Dhsiness, soon augmented my
ability as cigarette consumer. I began in a
sm all way, smoking three or four cigarettes
day, and by industry got to be regular
ssvholesale establishment, burning up from
forty to fifty cigarettes every twenty-four
hours. Naturally / was very proud of this
and ca to be very much respectfully
dealers in tobacco-and they pointed to me
as an example of what might be done by
logged adhesion to the work on hand.
Not feeling quite up to the mark, one
day consulted my regular physician. He
felt my pulse and shook his head gravely
<sNhen my doctor shakes his head it means at
least five dollars out of my pocket, so be-
gan to feel alarmed.
'Do you smoke" he asked.
saYes." -.
"What 2"
I "Cigarettes."
: q" How many day :"
I "About sixty three"
swell, they're killing you; you'll have to
stop"
"Is tobacco so injurious as all that 2"
"Tobacco No But cigarettes are. You
can use all the tobacco you want-but take
it in the form of good cigars"
Well, switched off on the cigar habit
applied to the smoking of cigars the same
habits OF earnest application that had been
go sigually successful with the cigarettes.
Next consultation had on the subject of
health with the M. D. same MANI he said:
"Smoke any2"
/ GA little" -
/ 0What 2"
"Good cigars" z--
4 ~ Iroxxy S37
| "Oh, five or six day."
f"Well, You'll have to stop that. It's kill
ing you"
aWhy, thought you said that tobacco
sOh, tobacco's all right, but not in the form
If cigars. Take to pipe. That's the only
rational way of using tobacco"
So began shifting the pipe" Got my
self a nice meerschaum-carved beautifully
and hogan to color it, When / tackled
the doctor afterwards he said:
"Use tobacco at allf'
"Yes.n
ssHow7"
SIN pipe"
.sWhat sort of pipeW
ssNice meerschaum.S
ssLet's see it."
TOOK the pipe out of its silk-lined case
and he looked at 1t and then at me IN a
plying way.
ssNo harm in tobacco, is therea"
ssOh, no harm in tobacco" he said "Of
course not. But should think that man
of sense would see that smoking the same
nine is q most dangerous occupation. 1t
rets saturated with nicotine and so you'll
have to quit this pipe or write out receipt
for your life insurance.
.eWell. what am to dos Chew or snuffa"
ssNeither. Take cheap pipe that you can
throw away. Buy new one every week.
then took to the corn-cob pipe-retail
r,;ca Ave cents. 1t has label on it that
raaas. s.Missouri Meerschaum.n 1t is made
hv some patent process from the cob of
Tydian corn. and it is very light and porta-
hla, took great comfort out Of the corn
cohs they are vanished on the outside,
snd when you get a good fire started this
s. begins to sizzle and fume and fill
-, the room with delightful burnt leather
pdor. -
while was smoking "Good gracious n he