The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1922-07-13

sicians know this and many of
them abstain from any use or
tobacco because of the lowering
of efficiency in precision. In the
delicate work of surgery the ply
stefan needs all the control he
can summon, for upon the skill
full use of his blade depends the
life of his patient.
More and more are employers
| beginning to see and understand
these effects which tend to cut
down efficiency, both of the en-
ployees and the company.
Not only does tobacco have a
very great physical effect on the
smoker but there is also great
er effect on the mental powers.
| Tobacco lowers the activity of
the brain by affecting the nerves
with it's poisOns. This decrease
in alertness makes loafers out of
the smokers. We see them on the
street corners wherever we go.
They are a drag to progress not
only on the street but in all our
national and local activity.
In addition to it's attacks on the
bodies and minds of the victims,
the cigarette seems to have an
especial effect upon the morals
of it's converts. This is due to the
action on the brain; the sense of
right is impaired, hence the fall
ling off of morals. The cigarette
smoker is looked upon as po-
tential thief.
The smoker will spend his last
cent for tobacco; to satisfy"
that craving for peace of mind"
caused by the terrible deadening
power of tobacco. How often does
the poor mans family go without
food, or heat, or clothing so that
the unfortunate father or some
times mother may have his or her
peaceful smoke"
This demoralizing effect is so
pronounced that Henry Ford, who
has considered the subject thor
oughly, has gone on record to
the effect that:
IF you will study the history
Of almost any criminal, you will
find that he is an invenerate Gig
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cigarettes, train with bad COM
pany. They go with other smok-
ers to poolrooms and saloons. The
cigarette drags them down.
Hence, if we can educate them
to the dangers of smoking we
shall perform SERVICE"
The smoker is undesirable in
good society, his breath is foul,
his whole person has a disagree
able odor He is blind to other
peoples comforts. Why? Tobacco
deadens his reasoning powers.
He can't think with clean mind
as God intended him-and all
because of the cigarette.
Cigarettes are destructive to
property. The smoker through
carelessness, brought on by his
habit, throws his stubs" or
matches about without thinking
they lodge in out of the way
places, adding to the filth, or,
if perchance the glowing embers
strike dry material in building
or forest, the flames come forth
and destroy mans property.
If tobacco affects the smoker
physically, mentally and morally
if it affects his ideals, his neat
ness, his happiness and his fin
ancial condition as l have pointed
out; should it not affect his pos
terity? And since the use of to-
bacco is so universal and increas-
ing annually will it not affect
us as a race, people, nation.
Can we not then understand
why the use of tobacco is increas-
ing to an alarming extent? Then,
why should not the high school
student fight the cigarette?
The habits acquired during a
persons high school life stay
with him. Upon the habits &C
quired there, does all his life
depend, whether successful or a
failure.
His high school life is the
great opening into the future.
Shall he go astray? That depends
upon his character, if he has not
already been polluted with the
deadly cigarette there are all the