The Republican., 1900-08-16
THE ENTICING CIGARETTE.
American BOyhoOd and
Manhood.


Eden was robbed of its joys has great
er foe arisen than the foul physical,
mental and moral destroyer, the
cigarette. Alcoholic drink has done
and is now doing great destruction to
the human family. but In my opinion |
tobacco in its various forms of use, and |
especially the poisonous cigarette, |
leads more effectually in destroying |
the manhood and especially the boy |
hood of our land.
Thousands of deaths occur annually
among our men and boys as a result of
the use of tobacco. Cigarettes produce
heart failures and constantly reduce
the circulation. The cigarette and
also tobacco impairs muscular force,
produces amaurosis, which is loss or
decay of sight without any visible de-
feet in the appearance of the eye, de-
stroys slowly and permanently the
power of the optic nerve, produces
color blindness and delirium tremens.
One of the saddest cases l was ever
called to attend professionally was
that of man in his strength of days,
an elder in the Presbyterian church,
who died with tobacco tremens. And
there was a 1G-year-old boy whose
death was the result of the foul ciga-
rette.
Tobacco produces smokers cancer
and insanity. The facts are appalling
in the highest degree as to the effects
both physical and moral upon our
manhood and boyhood of tobacco and
cigarette poison. Unless radical steps
are taken by the state and society to
arrest and overcome this pernicious
habit, it will only be brief question OF
time until we shall have nation OF
weablings and emasculated manhood.
Careful analysis of the stomach of Gig
arctic smokers shows acid, phosphor-
Gus and arsenic. These drugs are
largely used in the manufacture OF pa
per used in the cigarette business.
Again cigarette tobacco is strongly
impregnated with opium. The con-
stant use of tobacco in any form will
produce functional arrangement of the
digestive, circulatory and nervous sys-
TENS, producing headache, confusion of
intellect, loss of memory, dullness,
stupor and indisposition to muscular
or mental labor. Here is the strong
point manifestly displayed in our
young women who are taking the
honors in our high schools and col
leges. They have clear brains, not be-
numbed by cigarette or tobacco smoke
No man ever has or will reach his best
mentally, morally or physically who
becomes slave 10 tobacco.
The cigarette subtly combines 6
threefold deadly bane as fatal to un
wary youth as the poisoned garment OF
Nessus to the unsuspecting Hercules
Ninety per cent. of our men and boy:
are tobacco worms. Heart disease OF
the increase. loss of eyesight ha'
reached an alarming stage. y large
per cent of those cases can be TRACED
TO the use of tobacco and nicotine poi
son; also to the unerring and incontro
vertable law of heredity. Neurotic dis
eases are on the increase and weakness
among women. These are all traceabl
to this Niagara stream of death that
flowing through our world to-day.
The tobacco habit stimulates the ap
petite for alcoholic drinks. My oh
servation has been that no man die
from intoXcation who is not tobacc
user. AS member of the medical pre-
fession for many years, l wish to sa,
q the medical profession is greatly ad
dicted to the tobacco habit, and yet n
competent medical man would think Q
prescribing as medicine this narcoti
poison.
No woman who expects to becom
the mother of children should eve
marry cigarette or tobacco user. An
no young or old man should, ever bt
come father whose blood is thickene
and poisoned by nicotine. The scienc
OF medicine and the irrefutable laws {
heredity leave no room for doubt as
the duty of society and the state,
taking legislative steps in saving OF
youth from this deadly upas tree
IL. st. John, in Union Signal.