The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
THE CIGARETTE.
How 1t Is Made and the Results OF
Its Use.

How 1t Is Made and the Results Of
Its Use.
Do you care to know how cigar
retts are made? think / can en-
tighten you. An italian boy only
eighteen years old was brought
before a justicein New York as
avgrant or, in other words, ayoung
tramp. But with what did the Off
Ger charge him? Only with pick
ing up cigar stumps from the streets
and cutters. To prove this he
showed the boys basket, half full of
stumps, water soaked and covered
Nth mud.
"What do you'd with these"
asked his Honor. What do you
think was his answer II sell them
to q man for ten cents q pound, to
be used in making cigaretts. Not
a particularly agreeable piece of in
f)rmation, is it boys?
In our cities there are great
many cigar-butt grubbers, as they
are called. 1t certainly is not
pretty name, though very appropri-
ate; for it is applied to boys and
girls who scOur the streets in search
of half-burnt cigars and stunps,
which are dried and then sold to be
used in making cigarettes.
But this isn't all, nor even the
worst of it. These cigarettes have
been analyized, and physicians and
chemists were surprised to find
how much opium is put into them.
A tobacconist himself says that
"the extent to which drugs are used
j. appalling" "Havana favOring'
for this same purpose is sold every.
where by the thousand barrels
This havoring is made from the
tonka-beuu, which contains a dead
ly poison. The wrappers, warrant.
, ed to be rice paper, are sometimes
made of common paper, ard some
times of the filthy scrapings of rag
plckers, bleached white with arse,
mic What cheat to be practiced
on people!
Think of it, boys; the next time
you take up a cigarette, drop it-a;
you would coal of fire. The latter
A would simply burn your fingers
but this burns up good health, goot
resolutions, good manners, goot
f memories, good faculties, and Otter
g honesty and truthfulness as well.
!. A bright boy ofthirteen came I'm
der the spell of cigarettes. HI
q grew stupid and subject to nervous
| twitchings, tillfinally he was oblig
;. ed to give up his studies. Whel
f asked why he didn't throw ava,
= his miserable cigarettes, the poo
!. boy replied, with tears, that he hat
y often tried to do so, but could not.
!. Another boy of eleven was mad
@ crazy by cigarette smoking, ant
q was taken to an insane asylum il
q Orange county New York. He wa
! regarded as violent and danger
o Gus maniac, exhibiting some of tn
d symptoms peculiar to hydrophobia
!. The white spots on the tongu
and inside the cheeks, called smok
f ers patches, are thought by 81
" Morrell Mckenzie to be NOR
,. common with users of cigar
J. cites than with Other smokers.
/, "Does cigarette smoke iDjur
!. the lungs?" asked some one of
n leading New York physician. Fo
g his answer the doctor lighted CT
\, garette and blew the smok
n through a corner of his handker
O chief which he held tightly owe
n his mouth. A dark brown stat
I. was distinctly visible. aust sue
NJ a STAIN" said the doctor, "is left uI
.. on the lungs" If you ever smok
4 another cigarette, think Of tn
if stains you are making.
.. There is disease called the G
garette eye, it is regarded as dar
Is gerous. A film comes over the ey'
Al appearing and disappearing at in
e tervals. And did you know tbs