The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-04-08

qence in this vice The juvenile Gig
aret smoker almost Immediately
learns to inhale the smoke. Not one
cisaret smoker in twenty, venture
to assert, uses them in any other way,
and when once the victim has acquir-
ed the inhaling habit in connection with
cigarets, be can seldom secure any
satisfaction with pipe or cigar without
indulging his inhaling propensites.
The normal smoker draws the smoke
into his mouth and expels it. with
the result that the minimum of the
products of combustion-namely, mic
otine, the volatile oils, and the deadly
carbon monoxide (CO) get into bis
circulation. / honestly believe that
very few healthy adults are injured by
a reasonable use of tobacco in the way
described. The cigaret smoker, how
ever, takes a deep inhalation of the
smoke, which at once reaches the up.
per air passages of the lungs where
almost immediatly are released into
his circulation the products l have re-
ferred 70, usually causing the slight
dizziness and the mild intoxication
that is so fascinating and so devastat.
ing.
The London Lancet, one OF the
most reliable medical journals publish
ed in the English language, has re-
Gently stated that the most deleterious
product in the combustion of tobacco
is carbon monoxide, which is the
deadly constituent Of water gas, and
is present in comparatively large
quantities in tobacco smoke. This is
the poison that is responsible for the
utter decentralization of that unhappy
individual who has come to be known
as the cigaret fend, whose pale face
shattered nerves and hopeless position
in the community is recognized as ap'
plying to many Of our American youth
whose opportunity for usefulness and
happiness has passed away.
Experiments have demonstrated
that this poisonous gas is taken up by
the blood when tobacco smoke is in.
hailed.
1t will be observed that the evil
and the danger is in the ,nAaling habit
and is greater when related to the
pipe or cigar than in connection with
the cigaret, although 1t is obvious that
the cigaret is the nurse and tutor Of
the habit.
| have never known a smoker to be
gin the inhaling habit with cigar or
pipe, but nearly every cigaret inhaler
soon ixtends his operations so that IN
a comparatively short time he includes
pipe and cigars in his abnormal and
dangerous manner Of indulging in
what might be comparatively harm
less habit.
What Is the explanation of this ex.
traordinary campaign against this
vice in London? 1t is simply that
they have walked up to the Importance
of some converted effort to lessen an
evil that has already shown itself in
the deterioration of the health and
usefulness of the youth of that coun'
try. The same situation is present in
the United States.
A few years ago it was the privilege
of the writer Of this article to render
some service in connection with the
administration of the public school
system of this city. During the period
covered by that service several of the
principals in the public schools CON-
planned of a condition that it was diff
cult for them to understa nd. Boys ol
ten, twelve and fourteen years of age.
naturally bright, were observed to be
losing the power Of concentration and
application of mind. Nervousness,
listlessness and tendency to truancy
we're associated with the names OF
neatly every one of them. 1t was
found that nearly all the incorrigible
truants were cigaret fiends; that is to
say, they were almost hopelessly ad-
dicted to the inhaling habit. Their
nerves were shattered, and the value
of public school instruction was great
ly lessened in their cases. Further in.
vestigation disclosed the fact that very
many of these boys stole money from
their parents, or sold all sorts of arti.
cles that they could lay their hands
on, in order that they could crafty an
appetite that fed on its own indul.
gence.
A Justice of the Supreme Court o1
this State. since deceased, told me that
IN the last year that he was practicine
at this bar, he had nine office boys in
| his emnlOv who had been DISCHARGED