The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-07-09
HERE'S HOT STUFF
DR.. Broughton and Char
Iotte Observer EXCHANGE
Compliments.

are less Harmful.

DO Not Hurt Men and
arc Less Harmful.
Do cigarettes injure ones health or
5r rails
Rev. DR.. L. q. Broughton in a recent
sermon a. Spartanburg, Was quoted as
saying that q mar VINO smokel Gig
aretteS for ten consecutive years would
lie. cheat. commit adultery and COM
init murder.
The Charlotte Observer. Comment
ing on that statement by Dr B-gugh-
ton. made the following editorial state
ment.
The Observer on Broushton.
"Rev. DR.. In O Broughtoa. of
Atlanta. is or has been holding a re-
vlvaI meeting in SDartanburg. 5. c.
ana repeated there the statement he
maze recently in Charlotte tnat any
boqY who smokes cigarettes for ten
Years Wi.l lie and ste4i-acComBany-
ing MS libel with his discourse upon
the imaginary opium and arsenic with
which the cigarette paper Is impreg-
nareu. This opium and arsenic
theory, ~ viii be recalled, hTs been
thoroughly exploded recently BY 4
careful analysis Of various br4n;s OF
cigarettes mace for Inc Observer b.
Chemist Allen. Of the Nortn carolina
department Of agriculture.
X man VINO enters upon 4 crusade
-'' dkotA no So ~ ~
ne sustained but are easily blown
away, Injuries himself u his cause.
The law should forbid the sal~ OF
cigarettes or tobacco in any form to
minors, because they are the wards
of the state and tobacco is not good
for them, just as the law forbids the
sale of liquor to them because liquor
IS not good for them. But each of us
knows many mature men, as good men
as live, men who neither lie nor steal.
who have smoked cigarettes practical
ly ali Of their lives and men Who are
In no sense the worse for them except
that they smell bad. The only Just
ground upon which the use of the in
fernal tslngs by grown men can be
or could be legislated
against is that they offend the air
which people who abominate them
have to breathe. They are a nuisance
and like other nuisances Mould be
abated. But they do not hurt men
and are less harmful to boys han
tobacco in any other form
BroughtOn or The Charlotte Obser-
yer.
The above editorial was seen by DR..
B~roughton while in Spartanburg, S. c..
and the Sp~artanburg Herald says DIR.
Broughton attacked severely and sue
cessfully from the pulpit of the First
Baptist church the editorial concern
ing the statement that a man would
r t0tsSA C'i' SCbhA
NIT murder who smoked cigarettes
for ten consecutive years.
The Herald then quotes DIR.
B~roughton as saying in part:
The Charlotte Observer has seen
fit to assail the position l have taken
against cigarettes, and censures me
severely in an editorial printed Thurs
day morning concerning a statement
l made in hat town and in the meet
ing here last Sunday afternoon. This
! editorial was published in your morn
ing paper. The papers Of this city
have been very kind to me, especially
the morning paper The church needs
more than ever to make an ally of the
newspaper. My judgment is, the
church needs the press, especially the
daily press. The church does not
show to the press the courtesy thew
feel they are due. Newspapers look
for news. and that, perhaps, is one
reason why they do not often come
to the church-because there is nc
news there. We need to do something
in the church.
people in the country would read
his editorial in the Charlotte Observer
and would be influenced by 1t, were
it not corrected. The Charlotte OBJ
server is up to it's old tricks. 1t has
been hit hard and that is the reason
1t strikes back at me. The observer
Is a Whiskey soaked sheet from the
tolloI dC"h ~ IL olIiOC L /
venture to say The Charlotte observer
force has not seen a q sober day in
twenty-five years. Why does The
Charlotte Observer keep hitting at me ?
1t is because the close alliance between
that paper and the American Tobacco
Company The American Tobacco
Company is that hydra-headed mon
ster which is doing 50 much to ruin
the you'll. of our land, and ] have al
ways stood out against it.
Nov let US see what this editoria,
says: This opium and arsenic theory
it will be recalled. has been thorough
ly exploded recently by a careful anal
ysis of various brands of cigarettes
made for the Observer by Chemist
Allen, of the North Carolina depart
ment of agriculture. From his state
ment The Observer bases it's attack
upon me, and winds up by saying thai
cigarette smoking does not hurt mer
and Is less harmful to boys than tobac-
co in any other form. Now, the State
chemist, of North Carolina, only eX-
amined the tobacco in the cigarettes
he did not say a word about the
paper. | dwelt mainly upon he ar
senic in the rice paper and SpOk(
of the injury caused by the smoke be
ing inhaled and carrying poison into
the lung cells. The doctor Who say!
that this is not so only shows his iE-
~norance. and the chemist who denies
it I will challenge him to an examina-
ton in medicine today, as big a zoo
as / am.
There is a spring in Virginia, whose
waters have a soothing effect, II con
tains But the mineral elc-
ments that produce it are so mild tina
with the most careful examination on
~ a trace of bromine can be found {
the gallon. So With opium in ciga :
cites. But | DIV cit not on the opium
for ] know they only contain a small
quantity of it. l spoke of the bleach
ing process of the papers. by whicf
process ii absorbs a great amount q
arsenic. The heuis did not exam
inc the paper of the cigarettes. The
State Civic Chemist, of New York
made q statement that more than
ninety per cent of the cigarettes arr
AXE in opium and STEPPED in ar
!. senic- My fight on cigarettes is based
on the inhalation of the smoke. /
you cigarette fiends were to nhalf
that much smoke from a lghtwooc
knot or the finest grade OF writing
paper YOU would close your lung cell
forever to the good that the breathing
Of pure oxygen VIII do for the lungS.
4 still repeat my statement thai
has caused SO much Now
listen. and don't taEe any newspaper
" oooc,11t for If 4 ~ n Ixhn NIiN cr1nkk