The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-02-06
HOW CIGARETTES ARE MADE.
Appalling Information About the Ma
terial Used-Their Effects upon the
Human System.

Appalling Information About the Ma
terial Used-Their Effects upon the
Human System.
Do you care to know how cigarettes
are made? l think l can enlighten
you. An Italian boy, only eight years
old, was brought before q justice in
New York City, as a vagrant, or, in
other words, a young tramp. But with
what did the officer charge him ? Only
with picking up cigar-stumps from the
streets and cutters. TO prove this, he
showed the boys basket, half full of
stumps, water-soaked and covered with
mud.
What do you do with these 2" asked
His Honor. Whatdo you think was his
answer? 81 sell them to u man for
ten cents u pound, to be used in MAX
ing cigarettes" Not u particularly
agreeable piece Of information, is it,
boys?
In u large cities there are q great
many cigar-butt grubbers, as they are
called. 1t certainly is not a pretty
name, though very appropriate ; for it
is applied to tho boys and girls who
scour the streets in search of half-burnt
cigars and stumps, which are dried
and then sold to be used in making
cigaretts.
But this isn't all, nor even the worst
OF it, These cigarettes have been an
alyzed. and physicians and chemists
are surprised to find how much opium
is put into them. A tobacconist him
self say that 1.-The extent to which
drugs are used in cigarettes is appall-
ing" Havana ~ilavoring" for this
same purpose is sold everywhere bv
the thousand barrels. This navoring
is made from the tonka-bean, which
contains u deadly poison. The
pers. warranted to be r~ice-paper, are
sometimes made of common paper, and
sometimes of filthy scrapings of rag
plckers, bleached white with arsenic.
What a cheat to be practiced on peo-
pie!
Think of it, boys ! the next time you
take up a cigarette, drop it as you
would u coal of fire. The latter would
simply burn your fingers; but this
burns up good health, good resolutions.
good manners, good memories, good
faculties, and often honesty and truth
fulncsS as we'll.
~ bright boy of thirteen came under
the spell of cigarettes. He grew
stupid, and subject to nervous witch
ing, till finally he was obliged to give
up his studies. When asked why he
Cidn't throw away his miserable cigar
cues, inc poo BOY replied, with tears.
that he had often tried to do so, but
could not.
Another boy OF eleven was made
crazy by cigarette smoking, and was
taken to an insane asylum in Orange
County, New York. He was u violent
and dangerous manic, exhibiting some
of the symptoms peculiar to hydro
phObia.
The white spots on the tongue and
inside the checks, called smokers
patches, are thought by Sir Morcll
Mackenzie to be more common with
users of cigarettes than with other
smokers.
Does cigarette smoking injurc the
lungsw asked some one of Il leading
New York physician. For his answer,
the doctor lighted II cigarette, and in
haling Il mOuthful of smoke, blew it
through the corner of his handkerchief
which he held tightly over his mouth.
A dark brown stain was distinctly
visible. Just such IL STAIN" said the
doctor, sis left upon the lungs" If
you ever smoke another cigarette,
think of the stains you are Making
Christian at Work.