The Nevada County picayune., 1922-03-23
PRIZE FSSAY-HIGH SCHOOL
($10 presented by the Prescott
 W. C. T. U)

t,ldfettes are the greatest demon
 of today that is among the race of boys,
 because they are used more than any
 other thing that could harm them. Boys of almost every size, age and color, smoke cigarettes from small part to all of the time, not only when thev are at leisure, but when they are at work as we'll and it is true indeed that the more cigarettes a boy smokes.
 the more he wants to smoke, because
 the opium and nicotine in the paper
 and tobacco causes him to form the habit
 The boy who smokes cigarettes can not perform his daily task as well as he who does not smoke them. because he does not have the ambition 10
 stick to his job" as he would have otherwise. and without ambition what
 could we expect to accomplish? The
 evil is growing one, and operates in various ways.
 II is very common thing for per
 son to have smokers tuberculosis,
 which is caused by smoking cigarettes. and this is one reason why boy
 should not smoke cigarettes. because
 we all know that tuberculosis almost
 means sure death, to the ones who l have il. at least seventy per cent of
 all people who have tuberculosis, die
 in less than five years after they take l it. This world is already scarce of
 good. reliable men, and tie boys of 1 today are the men of tomorrow. This 1 is another good reason why we should strive to save all those who are worth saving. and those who are worth say 1 ing would include each and every one.
 Many boys smoke cigarettes when their parents do not know of il. But | this is no excuse for the boys. for
 their health will be injured as bad as the hovs who smoke them where every
 one can see them.
 Statistics show that the average life of the human race k only $; years. This is indeed very short time for people to serve their God. country. and fellow man. and this should not hy any
 means he wasted away by the use of filthy and unhealthy cigarettes which will wreck and ruin the life of any boy who smokes them.
 am not much of Il mathematician. | said the cigarette. but l can add to T boy's nervous troubles. l can subtract from his energy. can multiply his aches and pains can divide his men,
 tal powcrs, l take interest from his work. and discount his success for | chance.
 Someone has said that all cigarette fends will steal and tell lies. and be- Eeying that the widespread use of cigarettes is a slow and insidious de strover of the fitness of the race. that it's general use by boys from thelf youth up. generation after generation
 is contributing 10 unmistakable and certain degeneracy. to say nothing oi the loathsomenesS of the habit and it's great expense to mankind. l feel that organized society should find methods to check their use and avoid the dire effects
 Three foluths of the users of cigar cites admit that it is, to say the least, filthy and expensive habit If the amount spent annually in Arkansas
 for cigarettes. could he applied to our urgent needs and requirements Tor education. or for roads or to reduce | taxation. 1t would not be long before we would he far from the 46th place 1 in educational resources.
 Studies of Yale College show that lnon-Smokers gain seyenty-seven per cent lung capacity and twenty-four per
 cent more in height than those who
 smoke cigarettes Also enter college
 fifteen months younger than those who smoke cigarettes as shown by pr. J.
 W. Seaver. president Yale College.
 A healthy breathing apparatus is as
 indispensable to the successful lawyer
 or uolitic'an as a we'll cultured intel
 feet. The thorough aeration of the
 blood hy free exposure to large
 hreathing surface in the lungs, IS
 necessary to maintain that full vital
 power on which the vigorous working | . , ,; ;, .o la,oo a noa SYre da-