The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-08
CIGARETTES LEAD
To DRINK AND DOPE
INDICTMENT BROUGHT AGAINST
COFFIN TACks- BY REV.
Z. a. JENKINS.
GIVES MANY REASONS
"I1-> ALWAYS FOR STIMULATION
or NERVES THAT MAKES
IS NERVOUS PEOPLE"
SAYS Preacher

We have come to De d nervous
people. / don't know what we are
coming tots always for the stimu-
lation of thu nerves --,ghtskey, spirits
cocaine. morphine. laudanum,
cigarettes"
SO declared Rev Carter Ashton
| Jenkens, pastor Of calvary Baptist
Church, before large congregation
In church last night. He preached one
OF his sermon SERIES on WHY Young
People Go Wrong" ana paid part!cu-
lar stteation to cigarettes and done
cigarettes, he said. SIS not only
national, bat an international evil"
Reasons Against Cigarette.
ia sfytas reasons why the ciga rette
SHOULD not he smoked, he said:
n mars the appearance The
plump cheeks soon become hollow
the sparkle in the eye is lost--snl!le
goue-position lost, downcast looks
morose. ragged clothes unkempt hair
"lt ia injurious to health. What
ever DESTROYS looks Injuries the body.
IL it any wonder that the number of
J desenerates is rapidly increasing? And
are We no. justified in laying the blame
Of this increase largely upon the
spread of the tobacco habit? Blind
ness. deafness, thick yellow skin. the
: hinderinc Of development are added
to the many evil effects, with body
/ saturated with the had-smeilina
poison,
! 1T Is Injurious 10 the mind and
] causes :, desire TO drink. There ~
slight quantity of pyrtdine present in
cigarette smoke that dries the mucous
cs,at OF the nlout., and throat and
makes man want To drink. These
) two drugs cigarettes and dope, GO well
together and accomplish wonders in
reducing man to "A mere animal
The disastrous effect doesn't stop at
the arrangement OF the digestive
organs. The influence on the nerves
/ is felt all over, even tn the hearts
action. The brain being merely. a
great mass OF nerve matter. suffers
largely IN time, and the result is loss
of memory and the sense Of moral
I responsibility. The whole plane ot in
tellect Is lowered.
ST prevents success In business.
Says Orison Sweet Mardin in Success
; Ma gazine: Il denounce II simply be-
cause OF its hlighting. blasting effect
slpon ones success in life.
The sad story of Il young physician.
who, under the age Of thirty, had
made three discoveries in nervous dis
eases that made him famous, but who
went to pieces under the cigarette and
ended his days in a Inaniac's cell in q
]
/ told with great effect. Cigarette smok =
/ ing il no longer simply a moral ques
! tion, he said. The business world has
taken II up as deadly enemy OF ad
vanceraent of achievement. In Chicago.
Montgomery, Ward & Company. Hib-
I bard. Spencer 4 Bartlett. and many
other large concerns have prohibited
cigarette smoking among all employees
i under eighteen years. Marshall Field
G Company. and the Morgan & Wright
Fire Company have this rule; mo
cigarette can be smoked by our en-
ployes."
4 Are Comm Tscks.
! One Of the questions the appli-
cation blanks at Wanamaeers reads:
l"Do you use tobacco or cigarettes
] The Norfolk and Western Railroad
pa ssed an order prohibiting employees
/ OF the Norfolk and Western Railroad
I from smoking cigarettes, Following
the wreck Of No. "a. the Southern's
/ fast passenger train, near Greensboro
some months ago. when Ave were
killed and twenty injured. IL Is stated
that no one will hereafter be en-
! pioycd by the company who is known
| to be cigarette fiend. Thus all men
who habitually smoke these coffin tacks
/ tfor believe this to be their right
name) are being speedily barred from
all lines of business where quick and
accurate mental perception Is neces-
sary.
II. is injurious to morals These
coffin tacks kill the power of decis-
ion. The victim begins TO vaciIiate,
10 waver and to ask every body's ad-
vice. He cannot make up his mind 70
say no. Then ii destroys his viii
! power
1T is expensive. A man who IL
constantly buying paper pipes viii not
/ have much money for anything else.
! 1T is offensive to otheSs; makes
+, many people sick
The Use OF Dope.
| Some of our drug stores which
| ought to exist solely in the interex. Of
| health. have become dispensaries Of
many drinks and poisons which are
| enslaving patrons TO destroying habits
But / thank, with all my hear, the
powers that are being exercised TO
destroy these wicked practices and
| corrupterS Of youth,
Dope is a slang word that stands for
narcotic. in generaf---Tr1 0 T p h II g,
opium cocaine and caffeine all come
under the head Of dope, We have
come to be a nervous people. i don't
know what we are coming tots al
ways for the stimulation OF the nerves
--whiskey. spirits. cocaine. morphine
laudanum, cigarettes.
Says the Outlook (March, 1909l:
! The opium question may he no long
err confined to China and England
alone. The investigation of various
commissions have resulted in fepress-
ing discoveries in other countries,
more especially in the United States
y.hese the, opium. habit aaperse: .s,.
| has blossomed into a Gaurishing
vice"
IN the last thirty Yea ~ the I'm marta