Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-20
DOES CIGARETTE SMOKING PAY?
By J. R. ALLEN, Principal of the Pine Bluff High School.

AS rule when one is asked to give some reasons against a habit or ! custom there are arguments on the other side of the question that must be met. But. in the case of the ciga- rette, 1 fail to find a single attribute to recommend it.
 If tobacco we're more harmful, less harm would be done by it. If it pro- siuced promptly and vividly the re- suits at cnce, which years of use bring, it would be feared. The fail ure to at once identify the evil effects renders it more dangerous.
 The tobacco in a cigarette is no more harmful than the tobacco in q cigar. The cigarette is cheap, it is handy, and it is always ready. This cheapness makes it possible for the small growing boy to secure it. Nine tenths of these boys increase the in- jurlous effects of the cigarette at least six times by inhaling. A whiff of one1 cigarette does little harm, if the one taking the whiff does not in- hale. It is the keeping up of the whiffs indefinitely that causes the serious consequences.
 It is said in some portions of Italy the people have so formed the arsenic habit that they do not seemingly suf. fer ill results from quantity, One tenth of which, would kill a man not accustomed to it's use.
 Because these people do not at once see the e7f1 effect of this poison, i. can be argued that it's poisonous effects are rendered harmless by con- tinued use.
 Nicotine Deadly.
 , The person who uses tobacco, for the first time becomes sick as a re- sulI of it. Because, after using ;t awhile, it does not have the same ef- feet, is he to- conclude that the pois- On that made him sick at first has Teen removed? pr. Kellogg says:
 "One-fourteenth of a drop of nico- tine will kill frog in ten seconds, and one-sixth of drop will kill a cat in fourteen seconds, one thirty second of grain will make the aver age man ill. If this be true, nicotine ir. sufficient quantity will kill T boy outright. 1t also true, that in hailed from day to day, the nervous system is effected, the heart weaken GC dIlQ tuC IliIIlu UcIOSSCu.
 Frances Jewett, in her book, "The Next Generation says:
 When a man sets fire to his ciga7 rette, the tobacco turns itself to smoke and ashes, and while this hap pens the nicotine turns into vapor. If now the man draws the smoke into his lungs, the vaporized nico- tine goes with it. But after reaching the lungs, they separate. The smoke stays on all the delicate tissues of the lung cells, which is bad. But the volatilized nicotine is not hindered by any tissues. Instead, it passes directly through the tissues of the lung cells, enters the blood stream, and is whirled to the heart by the straightest road posible."
 By the use of the sphymograph. 1t T'is shown that the heart is urged to more vigorous action by the smoking of cigarette. soon, however, after smoking, this vigor is gone, and the heart condition is shown to be worse than at first. &
 N0n.SmOkers Superior.
 At an examination at West Point, one-fourth of the young men were re- fused because of s'tobacco heart from cigarette smoking.
 At one time 412 boys wished to enter Annapolis. They were examin- ed in Peoria, H., and all but IA were refused. The examiner said the greater part of those who failed had weak hearts, and the majority o1