Arizona republican., 1898-11-29
CIGARETTES.

In a case appealed to it the supreme
 court of Tennessee has declared that
 cigarettes are not a legitimate article
 of sale and so do not come within the
 province of the federal constitution.
 The American Tobacco company will
 undoubtedly appeal the case and bring
 it before the supreme bench of the
 United States.
 Whatever is done the question re-
 mains the same: Are cigarettes in-
 furious or nos? The answer must be
 in the affirmative
 The fault is not so much in the cigar
 cites themselves as it is in the smok- CTS of them. About a year ago a Chi cago paper printed nearly a column in defense of the cigarette. It proved
 from the testimony Of eminent phy- sicians and chemists that the cigarette contained no opium, preparations of opium, nor deleterious drugs. That tes- timony could not be shaken, but it did not establish ,he case for the cigarette The danger lies in the smoker himself It is not in what is smoked, but in the manner Of the smoking that the danger lies.
 A neophyte at smoking anything smokes a cigarette as he would a cigar, he puffs smoke into his mouth and blows it out again at once. That is smoking, but it is not cigarette smok- ing. A real cigarette smoker fills his mouth full of smoke and then draws it at once into his lungs. Those who have studied physiology know chat the air cells of the lungs connect directly with the blood. The nicotine going directly into the blood from an inha1a- ton of cigarette smoke makes it's eff fleets fela almost instantly upon tho brain. It is form of intoxication. 4 man who is used to Q pipe or a cigar will, if he smokes the whore of a cigar cite in the way confirmed cigarette smoker does, become usually quite dizzy. Il is an entirely different thing from what he has been accustomed to- i He can hardly taste the smoke in his | mouth, but in his lungs he feels it's | presence.
 There are great many people who smoke a cigarette now and then and it | does not hurt them at all. The chief | trouble about cigarettes is that they | are insidious A boy takes hold of i them and before he knows it he De- comes enslaved to them. A pipe or a cigar does not supply the place of cigarette. If he should constantly in haze the smoke of a pipe or a cigar it L; F; more harm, but it would not afford him the same pleasure, for in the cigarette the nicotine is volatilized more quick ly than ft is in any other form in which | tobacco is smoked
 It is only about thirty-ive years ago since cigarettes wee commonly smoked . in the United States. At the present time there are a great many older men who smoke them now and then when they haven't time to smoke a cigar. One of the great temptations of cigar cites is their convenience. Everything | the cigarette smoker and there is little to discourage him. When he begins to feel that cigarettes hurt him he tries to stop. Sometimes he is successful, more often not.
 As for stopping cigarette smoking by legislation. That seems 10 be Q vain dream. The prohibitory laws of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have not been any too successful. There is not much chance that even if the supreme court of the United States confirms the decision Of the highest court of Ten nessee, the law can reform the cigar atta smokers of that state.