Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-18

[mmorality of the cigarette is the Isis of objection to it's use, as ex-
 essed by Willis Brown, judge of the lJenile court of Salt Lake City, and
 ganizer of the National Anti-Cigar-
 e league.
 Not that it is immoral to smoke
 ;arettes, but that the cigarette holds f germs of immortality" says Judge Town, after putting in a high-pres-
 re day talking to the boys and girls Is the Yeatman High school and the s.st St. Louis High school.
 Let no one get the impression that z am an anti-smoking crank. I am
 nply striking at the inhaler, who is It only undermining his own system 1t knocking the props from the oral tone the immortality contained
 the cigarette
 Cigarette FOreruns Crime.
 "The inhaler in exciting the nerve nterS that bestir the carnal instincts
 state this advisedly, after several ISars of experience and experimental ln with adolescent smokers in a lib al study of boyhood. This investi- tion conyinces me that the cigarette
 the forerunner of the dope fiend M cfiminality.'
 Thi1 Gelver into boy character sees anNssuch pathological results as 'eX- :gerAte degos,' brain storms" cases
 artificial brlliancy and other cere Alafulminations produced through o!Stress of excessive cigarette smok- "While am not smoker of any in&a l can see no particular evil to ci&8 in making cigars or even Gig et, if Vhe votary of the habit does 9t Ike the vapors into the lungs. 1 WelESgo so far as to admit that the &84Ntte is a more poetic sight than M Stgar. There is certain fragile nSx about the cigarette when it is EkN caressed by the delft fingers of
 &ivated smoker.
 ere the simile ends,' emphasized edge. "I simply want to draw the sta&ction between the smoker and leMcigarette fiend.' When one be- bunS slave to inhalation to the ex- 1Ehat he cannot produce anything Der of good or evil results, until As braced up with fifty to one un led cigarettes, he is a sfiend' in Ae hndest Or the worst sense of the Eli tion. s& is the effect of the gases con ainl in the vapOr of cigarettes that x6&je the mucous membrane of the inn. When merely drawn into the nr&t and expelled, less of the mem- e surface is inflamed with creso- n apd nicotine gases, but a much ' and s~ more vital surface is E. Ied < When it is taken into the l1 1.-The acutest nerve centers are ed into exaggerated life. The 6t motors which are most suscep- ib13 to those gases are those repre- enNng the animal in man.
 A Lurking Drug Suggestion.
 h time inhalation comes to sug- eSt8the use of other narcotics: A man '1igkt smoke cigarettes in moderation, Without inhaling them, for years, with putAAny suggestion that cocaine, mor- bhf1e or opium would yield more bleAeant results. Yet, because of this herN suggestive power lurking in the fig6rette, it is to be feared. The cigar B the conservative vice.
 "l would rather my boy would use bpium than inhal'e cigarette gases. Dptnm at least deadens carnality.
 Fl am aware that much brilliant Reurotic effect is produced under the keenly active influence of inhalation )y Intellectual smoker to stop when N s'ego' refuses to produce smart hess without the inhalation of the ases of fifty or one hundred paper Sylind&rs a day. He has become a land pat that stage. The danger is |hAt he may not want to stop after