Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-02-27
THE CIGARETTE QUESTION

we puDllsh herewith Tor the con-
sideration of our readers an essay on
the cigarette written by student of
the high school following the address
by Chas. w. Carson of Detroit, on the
attitude Of Big Business toward the
cigarette evil. Essays we're written by
all members Of the 9th and 10th grades
and this one will give you fair notion
Of the high school students attitude.
(By Charles Danto)
A cigarette is a form of smoking, to-
bacco. Tobacco smoked this way is
put up into a small tube package made
of paper. The cigarette is about four
inches long and three Fights of an inch
In diameter. Inside this little paper
tube is the milled tobacco with other
things added to il, to make il more
saleable. The principal injurious
agent in cigarettes is in the paper
wrapper. Acrolein, substance that
degenerates the brain which is quite
rapid rmong boys and gives violent
action on the nerve centers, is found in
this paper. Tobacco in any form is bad
but cigarette is the worst, containing
five poisons, oil OF nicotine, oil Of the
paper, saltpedrs, opium, and the oil in
the flavoring. Anyone knows that
poison will kill you, yet thousands will
smoke the cigarette which contains
poisons by the galore. l count that
person who smokes cigarette, fool,
or in other words committing suicide
because every time he smokes one Of
these things he Is driving a nail
in his coffin. Some people make their
own cigarettes by taking milled tobacco
and putting it in a cigarette paper but
these are just as bad as the ones you
buy.
It can be seen how hard il is for one
who smokes cigarettes to secure posi-
ton. Everywhere different establish
ments will employ no one who smokes
these coffin nails. Yet the day is COM
ing when all establishments will not
allow their employees to smoke cigar
cites. The other day a young man step
ped into an employment agency in
Chicago and asked for position in
store. Undergoing questions given by
the examiner he was asked if he smok-
ed cigarettes. He said, Eyes" And
the examiner said il was impossible
for him to use him because the stain on
his fingers would soil the goods and
that the smell in his clothes Of tobacco
would drive away customers. Just
after the young man went out another
young man who did not smoke came in
and took the job. Edison employees no
one who smokes cigarettes.
Any one who smokes cigarettes is
brought in contact with bad company.
Pool rooms, saloons, and other vice
places is where the smokers hang out.
II you will study the character of al
most any criminal you will find out he
has smoked these death pills. Ninety
nine per cent of all boys brought before
court between the ages Of ten and
seventeen are cigarette users.
Everyone knows what great advant-
age a non smoker has over smoker in
athletics. Connie Mack says that no
one can succeed in athletics if he
smokes cigarettes. In foot ball try
out in the University Of Utah, out of
two hundred and ten men sixty-six per
cent of the non smokers were success
full while only thirty-three percent of
the smokers succeeded, Mike Donovan
says that in all cases the non smoker
out does the smoker. He has been in
athletics thirty years. You can not
quit smoking IL you have smoked two
years.
Go into a store tomorrow that sells
and get package Of common
cigarette papers. Take fifteen papers
and put them in a small bottle that con-
tains three teaspoonfuls Of water. Then
take the same thickness Of common
tissue paper and put them in another
bottle with the same amount Of water.
Give what fluid there is in the bottle
that had the tissue paper in and it will
do cat no harm. But give q cat what
was in the other bottle and the cat will
die. What will cause the cat to die?
One could 90 on and tell thing after
another how cigarette smoking does
one harm. All organs Of the body are
by it.
II can be seen that cigarette smoking
does no good but plenty of harm. Why
should you smoke them. II you do