Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-17
The Deadly Cigarette.

uuV OCousy Si9o'VNS'
The serious cutlery against the cigar
cite is not mere mist and moonshine.
nor talking nonsense, nor is it Wild
goose chase.
Cigarettes are encountering ever
increasing hostility. Both legislatures
and city councils have passed numer-
Gus anti-cigarette laws in all parts of
the land. California. Nebraska and
West Virginia passed in 1895. Com
missioner Hubbell. of the board of
education, formed in New York city
schools an Cigarette league.
Cigarette smoking is homicide and
suicide, an abominable nuisance to
him who must inhale the smokers
smoke. and deadly poison to the
smoker. His desire becomes a craving
as intense as the craving of a con-
iirmed drunkard. 1t wastes money,
strength, inctes to passion and en-
thrones a weed as the master of the
will. 1t causes sensitive stomach.
headache, dizziness. Wild and haggard
look, Bright's disease, abnormal action
Of the heart. and even dropsy may fol
low in its awful wake. as in the in
stance Of a young man of % years.
(After his death a vein bursted and
the blood therefrom was almost as
black as ink)
Several boys who were candidates
for naval cadetship from "A district in
Michigan, We're rejected because the
examining physician discovered that
their hearts We're seriously affected by
smoking cigarettes. Wise young men
do not smoke and foolish boys must
not.
The following testimonials from
physicians prove beyond reasonable
doubt the pernicious habit deadly: Dr.
r. NJ. Coan writes that it will do three
things; first, will run his pulse up to
100 or more per minute: second. it will
reduce his weight below the healthy
standard; third, it will reduce his
strength and general vitality, as will
appear in his pale complexion and
diminished appetite
DR.. j. II. Kent says that in case of
chronic idleness in young boys treated
10y me, l have been unable to effect
any cure or Improvement until | had
first succeeded in making the boy give
UP smoking.
DR.. l.. Webster Fox affirms that the
pernicious effect of cigarettes among
boys can hardly he overestimated
Their long-continued use impars their
faculties.
No speedier." says Dr. Hammond
method for rendering existence pain
full. AS a consequence the system
is thoroughly subject to their influence
and disease more certainly produced"
DR.. Brodie, Queen Victoria's physi-
clan, made several experiments with
nicotine applying it to the tongue of
a mouse. a squirrel and dog. Result
death. Test this by collecting cigar
cite smoke on a piece of white paper
or white handkerchief
DR.. William Murrell, in the British
Medical Journal. discovered consider
able quantities of arsenic in the wrap
rers of packages of cigarettes Out of
u series of different kinds of cigar
cites and tobacco. arsenic was present
in the labels of six.
In a Western toxin the water tore
away a bridge, and the express train
was due and in sight. A man lighted
his lantern to signal the train that was
madly rushing with its passengers to-
wards the jaws of death. He ran and
swung the lantern. But alas, the
wind outened the light in the lantern.
There he stood in the darkness awe
stricken. pulse maryelously quickened
and breast heaving at the great horror
and danger that was nigh. In his
anxiety to avoid the manning, disfigur-
ing and massacring of many children,
mothers, fathers, young men and
naidens, he forgot himself and threw
the lantern into the locomotive and
cried, Stop! stop" My young friends,
stop smoking cigarettes. Parents, if
your boys do not stop smoking on
their own account, this pernicious
habit which mains the pulse. reduces
the weight, strength and general
vitality, hence impars the ability to
think, WeakenS mental concentration
subjects the system to diseases affect
ing the eyes, causing nasal catarrh.
throat diseases-make them stop?
What, you cannot stop them? If your