The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-08-19
THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE
TILL THE TRUTH ABOUT uGARtTs

A reader writes to The star as iollows'
How shall break the cgarct habit which my boy seems
to he ioeung'o
Even father mother cannot break habit in child
The actual breaking Of the habit problem for the boy HIM
self Ii he has been smoking only relatively short time he
will have but little trouble II he only be persuaded to make
up his mind stop he has been smoking any great length
Of time and especially Il he nhaes the smoke he will have
more trouble hut even then he will be able quit he can he
persuaded to SET his will do IT, The duty OF the parent to
influence the boy to Want to stop There two things neees
sary. First setting good example and second telling the
truth about eigarets.
father who is himself cigaret smoker need hardly eS.
poet that either his arguments the boys mothers plead
ings will have great weight
The truth about egarcs and their harmful effect on the
body and mind coupled with good example should be enough
To whip the lad will probably result only in his smoking in
secret should be convinced that he does not want to smoke
great deal that has been written against earet smoking
is all nonsense and buneomhe Avoid all that Any false ag
against cgarets will only weaken your position You may
be that ii You tell boy anything that not true he VIII
discover aSy in time and put YOU down as lar or as not
knowing what you are talking about The result in either
will be the lie will lose confidence in you and reject all
you have said. both the true and the false.
1t dangerous present anything but the truth to any
body. especially boy
Besides the truth cgarets makes the charge against
them strong enough,
In the first place do not tell the boy that there is opium in
cgare or that there poison the paper tobacco that IS
found cigars and pipe tobacco and pipe stems and
pipe bowls There is Investigations by scientific men
show this There poison but is the tina, IS found in
cigars and other tobacco.
You might just well admit in the beginning that there
would be injury done by egaret smoking than by cigar
and pipe smoking the egarcs smoked in the same way
cigars and pipes generally
The trouble that they no, smoked in the same way
The cigaret smoker who inhae the smoke
And the great injury is done by the inhaling
Cigars and pipes are so strong that i, almost impossible
for boy to a into the habit Of nhang Il he smokes them
only.
The egaret Is much mder mild that 1t is easy fall
into the habit Of iuhaling
In inhaiine the smoke is drawn down into the lungs The
delicate blood vessels Of the lungs absorb great Of mic
otne This is the process by which smokers get tobacco
heart
Cigar smokers wind up with Witness the experience
Of Mark Twain as told in the news dispatches.
But cgare smoker takes short 10 tobacco heart
II much worse nhae pipe cigar smoke, for the
amount OF nicotine absorbed is greater.
Many iathers knowing nothing about cigaret smoking,
have expressed deep satisfaction that their boys have given up
egares while al the very moment they spoke the boys were
inhaling from pipe before their eyes
Argument from father knowing than that does
not go far.
II you do tobacco you may waste grea, deal of
time in talking against il to boy.
Take him to ievelheaded old smoker He can talk
from experience. Naturally his words will 90 further than
those father who does smoke Of mother who prob
ably knows less about II.
Then take the boy doctor and have the explain
him the effect Of tobacco especially when the smoke in
hailed.
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