New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-22


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Cigarettes and cycling bound by the strong
tie that untes all victims of unjust criticism and
abuse
The bicycle has triumphed over it's adversaries
and the cigarette is triumphing. /, was science
that dspelled the anti-bicycle bugaboo. and the
same mighty agency is indicating the cigarette
The latest advocate Of the cigarette is Clark
Bell. secretary of the Medco-Lcsal Society of
this city. In a paper entitled The Cigarette
Question offered by him last week before this
society, at the Hotel Marlborough Mr. Bell read
letter after letter from superintendent Of insane
asylums and eminent aenists and neurologsts OF
this country and Canada in which was em-
phatically stated that Of insanity caused
by cigarette smoking had ever come under their
care Mr.. Bell said that he himself had believed
that the stories Of the harm done by cigarettes
were In measure worthy of belief but that in the
face Of the testimony collected he had become con-
verted
In the comments which followed W. II. Garrison.
whose paper, "A Brief for the Cigarette" pre-
scented at the November meeting had called forth
the correspondence from which Mr.. Bell read the
extracts said thAt the little client for whom he
held the brief" "maleucd" and
'malign." lie said that in addition 20 the tes;i-
mony OF F. W. Robertson. NJ D.. the Insanity
Expert OF Bellevue, whom he had quoted in his
original paper tc the effect that cigarettes did
of Carlos f. Macdonald VI. D.. former Commits
soner in Lunacy Of this State. who wrote: "ln
my experience in the care and treatment Of the
insane covering continuous period Of twenty
seven years have never seen Il single case Of in
sanity due solely 10 cigarette smoking. The danger
in tobacco lies in its excessive use. and this is
equally true Of excuses in any other direction.
Walter NJ Fleming. NJ. D., a practitioner of
twenty-five years standing, ana Qualified En-
Of New York was also quoted 10y Mr.. Garrison to
the same erect. DR.. Fleming SAID Of the question
In general: THE poor little cigarette j. honOrcd
with Tar too much potency and power when en-
lowed with the mastery destructive qualities at
trihutcd to it,
Mr. Garrison called attention to the fact that in
tablished out OF the mouths Of expert chemists the
fact that cigarettes were made OF tne purcst. mild
best or paper. MOT trace OF opium. arsenic or
other ddulteration had ever been found IN Amcri-
can cigarettes" he said. The chemists he had
named in support OF this contention were Professor
II. W. Wiley. Chief Chemist. United States Depart
mcnt Of Agriculture, Professor Willis g. Tucker.
analyst Of the New-York State Board Of Health;
and Assistant Ci;y Chemist u. y. Bishee Of tn
same city: Mr.. j G. Wharton Of Nashville. Tenn;
fcsSors Robert and Alfred NJ. Peter. OF Lexington
Ky, Professor james Dewar. VI. A., +. X. S.
Jacksonian Professor. Cambridge University. Eng
land; William Odlins, NJ. a. r X :. Professor of
Chemistry University of oxford. England. &. Mcy-
mott Tidy. NJ. A. NJ. b., Professor Of Chemistry
and Of Forensic Medicine AT the London Hospital.
Massachusetts, and also official ASsayer OF Liquors
of that State To this list Mr. Garrison said ne
Martin. OF the Division of Food Inspection and
Offensive Trades Of the Health Department Of
NewYork. who had SAID to tn. sp aker IN a re
cent Interview that in his seventeen years expert
ence in the citys service he had met with no trace
of opium arsenic in cigarettes except once, ana
the sample which furnished that was OF foreign