The Washington herald., 1911-05-24
WOMAN WHO SMOKES
A MENACE TO RACE
She Does Not Make g. 6 o0d
M0thee.
sCIENCENvs. INsIDuoUs HABIT
Cisarettes Undermine the Nervous
md Moral CaIfber of Their User,
and Are Disgusting dn the Hands
of a Woman Who Elannts Them
in the Public Places.
Nv Ell. WHEELER WILCOX.

When a pretty girl whifrs at cigarette.
cne who has the highest interests OF the
race at heart is sorry.
When a woman of middle age smokes,
one is disguised with the sex.
Curiously enough the latter type most
<reuuently faunts her habit In public
places-hotel lol1bies, the saloons and
decks of ships, and in restaurants. 1t
seems to be her only hope of attracting
attention.
One who travels about the world can
rot fail to note how the habit isrincreas-
ing
In ENGLAND the woman who does not
take her after dinner cigarette seems to
be the exception.
Cigarette Smoker.DangerOus
George Baumhoff, superintendent of the
LindeT Railway. St. Louis, once said:
Under no circumstances will hire a
man who smokes cigarettes. He is as
dangerous at the front end of motor
as the man who drinks; in fact, he Is
more dangerous. His nerves are bound
TO give way at a critical moment
motorman needs his nerve all the time,
and a cigarette smoker cannot stand the
strain
Thomas A. Edison may be supposed to
know what he is talking about when he
says:
''AcroIein is one of the most terrible
drugs in its effect on the human body.
The burning of the ordinary cigarette
paper always produces acrolein. That Is
what makes the smoke so irritating. l
really believe that 1t often makes boys
insane.
We sometimes develop acrolein in this
laboratory in our experiments with glyc-
erin One whiff of it from the oven
nr he
building the other day. I can hardly
exaggerate the dangerous nature of aero
lein, and yet that is what a man or boy
is dealing with every time he smokes an
ordinary cigarette"
Cigarettes Poison the Brain.
P NJ. Sharpless. of West Chester, Pa.
who employs hundreds of men. says:
The cigarette poisons the brain, belit-
ties the personality, and degrades
morally
1T is my opinion that when a man or
boy smokes cigarettes, in few weeks
he is morally so far gone as to be be-
yond appeal More and more young
men are hoisting the sign, I am fool
by appearing in public with cigarette.
In our own offices where we employ
a great many young men. a cigarette
smoker gets no job, or, if he has 1t, he
gets no advancement. The fact that he
smokes cigarettes is proof positive that
he is weak in the upper story
When the alert Japanese heard Of the
result of Professor Seaver's investigation
at Yale and learned of the great havoc
the use of tobacco was making in Amer.
lea, legislation was Immediately passeu
prohibiting the use of tobacco by young
persons under twenty years.
For the sake of having fit soldiers
: Germany had already prohibited its use
by minors under sixteen. When the bill
was pending in Japan one man said:
IF we expect to make this nation SUI
perior to the nations of Europe and
America we must not allow our youth:
in common schools, who are to become
the fathers and mothers Of our country
in the near future, to smoke.
IF we desire to cause the light of the
nation to shine forth over the world we
ought not to follow the example of China
and India
A great many young men encourage
young women to smoke, but they invari
ably express regret when they see q
woman welded TO the weed.
No man likes to think his wife an in
veterate smoker.
No reasoning man can encourage the