The Washington herald., 1911-12-26
WAGING WAR ON
THE CIGARETTE
Nationwide Campaign Being
Conducted from Chicago.
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

"Rpys who smoke cigarettes are like
wormy apples-they drop long before har-
vest time"
DAVID STARR JORDAN.
"A good deal has been said about the
evils of cigarette smoking. but one-half
the truth has never been told. Cigarette
smoking first dulls the whole moral ma
ture. 1t has an appalling effect upon the
physical system as well. 1t first stimu-
lates and then stupefies the nerves. 1t
sends boys INTO consumption. 1t gives
them enlargement of the heart and sends
them to the insane asylum. 1 have seen
bright boys turned into ounces, and
straightforward boys made into miser-
able towards by cigarette smoking"
A. @. CLINTON
Physician to Several Boys Schools
The Anti-Cigarette League Of America,
with general headquarters at the Wom-
ans Temple in Chicago, is conducting an
America-wide campaign of education.
law enforcement. and legislation against
the cigarette evil.
1t is leading the fight against tremen-
dous odds
1t depends for success upon the CO.
operation of parents, teachers, preach
ers, doctors, legislators, and other friends
of the boys.
Judge Burke, of Chicago, has stated
that Our laws and times would not toll
crate for one single moment the cigar
cite evil If the desolation which it works
could be fully realized"
FACTS.
l. 200 to 100 boys begin smoking ev-
,. Bad habits are the starting point in
criminal careers,
3. Crime is keeping pace with the cigar
cite habit Ninety per cent of youthful
offenders are cigarette smokers.
4. S,644, go, 090 cigarettes were consumed
in the United States in 1910. an increase
of 1,S56, 4S7. sos over 1909. not including
those imported and rolled by hand.
8. tuberculosis fatalities are greatest
among cigarette smokers.
s. The cigarette is considered a key to
the insane asylum.
:. Most school billiards and truants are
cigarette smokers.
8. Many colleges are distributing CEN
ters for cigarettes.
9. Students mental and physical eff
cheney is lowered by cigarette smoking.
TO- The cigarette torch imperils life and
property everywhere.
H. Eleven States have prohibited the
manufacture and sale Of cigarettes.
u. ProhibitOry laws are upheld by the
United States Supreme Court.
All right-think Big people demand the
determination of this pest of society.
Many devotees of tobacco are ignorant
of its injurious nature. However, owing
to the rapid decline of the race during the
past few decades and the increase of
crime. insanity, and other diseases, special
attention has of recent years again been
called by leading medical men, scientists,
religious teachers, and commissions ap-
pointed by various nations TO investigate
the causes of the almost universal physi-
cal, intellectual, and moral degeneracy
to the fact that tobacco is responsible
for much that has, in the past, been
attributed to other causes. To ascertain
the real injury to the race from such a
habit we must necessarily go to the third
or fourth generation of its devotees. Nat
urally, the sad havoc wrought by tobacco
upon the race is more manifest now than
it has been in the past.
If you are a parent, a teacher, preach
er, or a friend of the boys and a we'll
wisher of the race, help this American
campaign against the cigarette evil by
writing to the Womans Temple. in Chi
cago, and asking what you can do to
push the cause along. And send a self
addressed stamped envelope for reply.