Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-03
CIGARETTE EVILS.
REV. MADISON c. PETERS ENuMER
ATES SOME OF THEM.
Tobacco In Its Most Deadly Form Is MAX
ing Mighty Inroads In the Ranks OF
Notwithstanding Facts Evolved From
PHYSICIANS Research.

Notwithstanding Facts Evolved From
Physicians Research.
All the medical fraternities of the
United States and Great Britain, allo-
pathic, homeopathic, hydropathic, eclec-
tic and electric condemn cigarette smok-
ing as one of the most destructive evils
that ever befeli the youth of any coun-
try. declaring that its direct tendency is
q deterioration of the race. The ciga-
retteis overshadowing every other branch
of the tobacco business.
1t is estimated that 1OO,00O,000 ciga-
rettes are manufactured annually in our
country. Investigation has shown that
cigarettes as rule are adulterated and
more injurious than tobacco. A physi-
clan had cigarette analysed and found
the tobacco to be strongly impregnated
with opium, while the wrapper, war
ranted to be rice paper, proved to be
common white paper whitened with AZ
seric. An eminent physician pronounces
cigarettes to be worse for boys than
cigars. because the paper absorbs more
of the nicotine. Nicotine is one of the
subtlest of poisons. Brodie, Queen Vic
toria's physician, made several expert
ments with nicotine, applying it to the
tongues of u mouse, II squirrel and a
dog. Death was produced in every in
stance Hold white paper over the
smoke of a cigarette, scrape the con-
densed smoke from the paper and put a
small quantity on the tongue of cat,
and in spite of its "nine lives" it will in
stantly writhe in commissions and die.
DR.. Hammond gives it as his testimony
that mo speedier method for rendering
existence painful is more efficacious than
to smoke cigarettes and to inhale the
fumes into the lungs. BY this practical
very large absorbing surface is exposed
to the action of nicotine and other pois
onous products which are evolved when
tobacco is burned. AS a consequence
the system is more thoroughly subjected
to their influence and disease more GER
tainly produced. The action of the brain
is impaired thereby, the ability to think,
and, in fact, all mental concentration
are weakened. Neuralgia, especially
about the face, throat diseases, nasal
catarrh, serious affections OF the eye,
dyspepsia, and, above all, interruption
in the normal action of the heart, are
among the consequences resulting from
the inhalation of cigarette smoke
A distinguished French physician has
investigated the effect Of smoking on 38
boys between the ages of 8 and Is who
were addicted to the habit. Twenty
seven presented distinct symptoms of
nicotine poisoning. In % there were
serious disorders of the circulation, in
digestion, dullness of intellect and a
marked appetite for strong drink. III 5
there was heart affection, in s decided
deterioration of the blood. In 10 there
was frequent bleeding of the nose: 10
had disturbed sleep and had liberation
of the mouth.
Tobacco attacks the nervous system
and thereby impairs the mental facui-
ties. DR.. Willard Parker says, To
baccO is ruinous i'll our schools, dwarf
ing the body and mind" At an exami-
nation for admission to the Free College
of New York. out of 800 girls geo, or II
per cent, passed. while only 4S Per cent
Of the boys could enter, the difference
being ascrlbed to tho Supplying effects
Of tobacco. The effect of tobacco on
schoolboys is SO marked as not to be
open for discussion. The classes of Yale
are graded according to their scholar
ship. In the first division only % per
cent use tobacco; III the second As, III
the third 70, and in the lowest IS. Dur
ing the last 80 years no devotee of the
weed has graduated from Harvard at
the head of his class, although above So
per cent of the students are addicted to
its use.
There are in this city good many
edgar butt grubbers," as they are
termcd-that is, boys and girls who
scour the streets for stumps and half
burned cigars, which are dried and then
sold to be used in making cigarettes. A
ragged S-year-old Italian boy, bare
headed and barefooted, was brought be-
fore one of the city justices on the
charge Of vagrancy. The officer who ar
rested him stated that he found the boy
picking up cigar stumps, water soaked
and covered with mud. What do you
do with these:" asked his honor II sell
them to a man for 10 cents pound, and
they are used for making cigarettes
\ southern tobacconist stated to a
New York Tribune representative that
the extent to which drugs are used in
cigarettes is appalling, and that HAY
ana flavoring" is sold by TIE thousand
barrels, prepared from the tonka bean,
which contains II deadly poison. Cigar
wrappers in many cases are made FROM
the filthy scrapings of ragpickers, ar
senic being often used in the bleaching
process. while combustion develops the
oil of cre0sote.
Boys, would you have your bodily
powers developed-would you be strong,
vigorous minded men? Don't smoke.
On our streets we behold vast and
ever increasing number of boys who evil
IDENTIFY consider smoking essential TO
manliness. And our police have orders
to stop all boys under IS! Parents are
ignorant of the habits of
their boys in this regard, and when not
ignorant surprisingly timid and Grim
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