The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-16
ANTI.cIGARETTE SUNDAY
Will Be Observed Sunday, June 20, All
Over the Country.

WIN DC opserVed sunday, June 20, AL
Over the Country.
To the Editor OF Barre Times,
Next Sunday will BIO observed
all over this country as ant.cigarette
Sunday, when attention will be drawn to
this pernicious roll to which both men
and boys are addicted.
Educators and employers of labor are
more and more coming to realize the
danger wrapped up in the bit OF white
paper not only to property but TO brains,
body and morals.
| The following opinions from prominent
people are worthy OF consideration to
those who would make the most of life:
The official mandate of the faculty OF
Cornell college is, Cut out cigarettes or
leave school,"
| DIR. Seaver of Yale announces that "To-
bacco and scholarship are not friends"
The proprietors of the Spencerian Bus
mess college will not even receive users
OF tobacco at their institution because,
they say, "The habit results in shattered
nerves, mental weakness, stunted growth
and general physical and moral degen-
eracy."
The director of the New York Athletic
club says, ITO do any othletic work at
all, tobacco must be absolutely tabooed."
School principals tell us: "It's wasted
time trying to educate boy with the
cigarette habit; it's like trying to teach
a block of wood"
"The boy cannot get his mind on any
thing but the cigarette; he is nervous,
detected and forgetful."
Boys using cigarettes become vicious,
are hard to manage, and they make weak |
and undesirable citizens"
A police magistrate in New York City |
declares that 80 per cent. out of 100
boys between the ages of 10 to II years
who come before him, are cigarette
users.
Germany has found it necessary to pro-
hibit the use of tob Geo by youths in or
der to maintain the physical standard
OF the army. Because of the injurious
effect to our boys in training at the mill
tary schools at Annapolis and West Point,
the habit has also been prohibited.
Nicotine poisoning is one of the chief
causes of insanity; yet our state off
the inmates at Waterbury with (3,623)
three thousand, six hundred and twenty
three pounds of tobacco. This might
serve as a text for profitable discus
sion among women taxpayers who help
Jay the bill, and non tobacco using ply
icians of the state, ii there are any.
Nicotine poison in the blood greatly \
Increases the danger from a surgical OPP
ration. The children of incorporate 4
lsers of tobacco, especially OF those who H
hew, are often puny and generally in.
erior to their parents, physically, men
ally and morally. In
In leafet sent out by the church II
emperance society OF the Methodist 4 II
Episcopal church the writer affirms that II
Tobacco perverts the appetite and tends H
0 induce sensuous desires impure III
thoughts and unchastity, binders the ac- III
ion of the holy spirit so that few men HI
hat use it habitually enjoy the con- III
,iousness of the indwelling Christ" III
Nicotine has been found to be the chief III
,use in producing and perpetuating an HI
ppetite for alcohol. Delirium tremens Hi
the result of alcohol and nicotine pois- III
4 combined. A man rarely if ever is I'LL
id to have the tremens who does not Hi
" tobacco. llI
The railroads and insurance companies Hill
e against the use of tobacco and cigar
ties as records of exactness do not favor Hi
e use. The supreme court of Tennes-
e declared the law forbidding the sale Hi
giving away of cigarettes in that
ate constitutional, and said in part as Nh
lows; 1--WE think cigarettes are not
Ultimate articles of commerce, because
ey are wholly noxions and deleterious MI
health. Their use is always harmful m
d never beneficial. Their every tend Hi
cy is toward the impairment of physi- u
! health and mental vigor." =
II is not necessary for the writer to
tie her personal opinion in the face of
much expert testimony which should
We weight with all those who seek the
od of the race. Ter
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