New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-05
PURITY OF CIGARETTES.
IMPORTANT ANALYSES MADE IN
CHICAGO
no DRUGS FOUND rs ANY OF THE VARIOUS KINDS
TEsTEp-AN OFFICIAL EXAMINATION.

no DRUGS FOUND 1N ANY OF THE VARIOUS KINDS
TEsTED-AN OFFICIAL EXAMINATION.
Chicago. Nov 4-Probably no other Of the re-
Gently enacted health measures OF the city OF chi
caco has been such surprise TO its sponsors as
the cigarette ordinance. Ostensibly designed to
protect the smokers from the unwilling use of
harmful drugs it has simply served to prove more
effectively and concusively. than could the manu-
facturers Of cigarettes themselves that their prod
uct Is absolutely free from Impurities OF any Kind.
Under the ordinance the Commissioner OF Health
s directed 10 inspect and examine samples OF al
cigarettes offered for SALE thorough analyses to be
made from time to time under his direction Act
ing under this authority. City Chemist Cass H.
Kennicott and Assistant City Chemist ID. b. Bisoee
made exhaustive analyses OF fourteen brands. ana
their report Is now on file with the Commissioner
OF Health and open for The inspection OF the Pupn''
Professor Kennicott talks freely OF the iaSe
ideas that prevail concerning the presence OF mar
full drugs in cigarettes Having carried on inc
analyses With the greatest care and 'horousn'e''
he naturally Is positive In his conclusions
AMERICAN CIGARETTES PURE.
american cigarettes" he declares, contain
nothing more dangerous than the tobacco itsei'
Professor Bisbee and myself made caie."'
analysis OF every brand of cigarettes orereu 'o'
sale in Chicago during the summer The samples
the shopkeeperG had no knowledge az 10 Whom
they were selling. We examined as many as ffty
cigarettes of each separate brand. There was
nothing wrong with any OF them. All were found
to be entirely free from opium, morphine. jimson
.cd. beadOnna. atropine or hyoscyamihe
Neither was any arsenic lead found in the paper
wrappers
AS matter OF fact there is nothing In any or
the fourteen brands OF cigarettes on the chicago
market that the smoker need be afraid OF. Ameri-
can cigarettes made of bright Virginia tobacco
not only the best In the market. but the mildest
Frequent analyses have shown that TINS tohacco
contains only from TO ~ per cent or nicotine
The mildcst Havana contains much more, while the
best grades OF domestic cigars reach as hlSn az
81. per cent. or course the less nicotine In your
smoke the less daf.ger OF Nlenects. g,
THE idea that arsenic or lead is sometimes tounn
in cigarette papers Is equally erroneous. we ma
arsenic. II is true. In some coored papers. ana IN
wall papers where it Is present as n constituent OF
the colo~. and find white lead IN hlghly glaHed
papers sometimes and more especially IN those
glazed cards which used many years ago Tor
visiting cards These are the only instances that /
know OF In which either Of these substances enters
into the composition OF paper In any way
PUREsT PAPER KNOWN
Nobody ever put arsenic into any white paper
that know OF or ever heard Of least OF all into
cigarette paper
"As matter OF fact. the paper. considered
merely as paper, which Is wrapped around cigar
cites is about pure form OF paper as II Is pos
slble To get by any means" .
The outcome Of the investigation resulting ms IL
does N the absolute acquittdl OF the cigarette
cigarette smokers as 1t Is disconcerting to those
ho m We oppOsed