The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-20
CIGARETTE DEFENSE
Are Not Nearly So Harmful as a
Cigar.
THE HABIT IS GROWING
Ten Billion Are Smoked Annually in
New York City, The Old Theories
Have All of Them Been
Exploded.

The popular prejudice against cigar
cites is so deep rooted that it almost
gives one a shock to hear any one dar-
ing to assail it. There are those who
have the temerity to defend the cigar
cite, and the fact that an old man. 81
years of age, died in Butte a few days
AGO who had smoked cigarettes a great
part of his life, has been taken as a text
for dealers sermon in favor of the
coffin nail"
"Cigarettes are less harmful than
cigars" said the dealer referred to, mot
withstanding to the contrary what old
fogies say According to an ancient
authority most of the debates in which
men engage are disagrecments because
they don't agree in the first place on
what they are talking about. That's
a bout the way 1T is with cigarettes.
People are prejudiced against them be-
cause they don't know anything about
them Prof H w. Wiley, who is chief
chemist Of the United States depart
ment of agriculture. says there is no
danger in the cigarette. A cigarette,
said he, is about one tWenty-siXth of an
ounce of tobacco wrapped in paper that
weighs so little that 1000 wrappers can
be made from one ounce OF the material
of what it is composed
Prof Charles A. Covell, of the Univer-
stty of New York, who has spent years
of his life in the study of the cigarette
has come to the final conclusion that
they are not near so harmful as cigars
in any particular. He has demonstrated
by experiments that the tobacco used in
the manufacture of the American Gig
arctic is pure.
j. w. Mallet, professor Of chemistry at
the University of Virginia, is another
w cp WIN \, tn Iafanl
the cigarette
''All statements" he says, that dele
ferrous substances are used in the man
ufacture of cigarettes are sensational. In
all experiments made either officially or
in private laboratories no investigator
has ever found any trace Of any adul-
terant that is alleged by detractors of
cigarettes to be present in them. What
kind of tobacco goes in a cigarette?
and what is the quality of the paper
wrapper? These two questions can be
answered by analyses. These must be
conducted by men who are competent
and unbiased. Such analyses have been
made. and their answer is that the an
alyist finds that the materials in a Gig
arctic are pure tobacco and pure paper,
and nothing else.
THE ash of a cigarette paper weighs
LII 900 of grain. Ehe very minuteness
of this medium precludes the possibility
| of it's conveying harmful quantity of
any poison, matter how delecterious
| it may be.
There is absolutely no poison in a
cigarette. 1t is made4of the finest to-
bacco in the country! 1T is pure and it
| is harmless. 1t is made clearly, and
| that is more than can be said Of the
cigar The tenement house investiga-
ton reports will prove that.
Cigars are much more harmful. They
| are made amid unceanly surroundings
and investigation has proved that one
cigar contains nearly ten times as much
| nicotine as one cigarette.
1.-THE reports often printed in the daily
newspapers that So and So has gone
crazy from smoking cigarettes are al
bosh." says DR.. W. H. Garrison in "A
| Brief History of the Cigarette"
| Dr. Frank c. Hoyt, of the Iowa hos.
pital, bears Mr.. Garrison out in the fol.
| lowing words:
Il have before me the compiled stats
| tics of $4,000 cases Of insanity, and fine
that in this large number only one case
is supposed to have been caused by the
use of cigarettes.
THAT the cigarette is a cause of in
sanity is most positively denied. and
assert that tobacco in any form, ever
when used to an excessive degree, Is
| not a factor in causing insanity
A medical book just published shows
| that forty authorities agree that the
| cigarette is not harmful. They find al
most collectively that there is but one
fault to be found with the habit, anc
| that is it is expensive.
The extent to which cigarette smok.
ing is carried on in this country is al
most appalling when the figures are
seen in print. One authority has it tina
in the city of New York alone there
are consumed annually 100000, 900 Gig
arettes of local manufacture alone ant
not including the numerous brands O.
| the imported article.