“I regard the Cigarette as a _fuse of infernal_ fire, tending to
explode the _worst passions of the body_! In dealing with more than
sixteen thousand delinquent children during the last eight years,
I find as a rule the user of Cigarettes is a _stunt, a weakling in
body, mind, and morals_.”--_Zed H. Copp, Chief Probation Officer,
Juvenile Court, Washington, D. C._
_Heart Tracings_
We invite your attention to the work of the delicate little instrument,
called the sphygmograph, which records the strength and regularity of
the heart beat. Notice the following tracings:--
[Illustration: _No. 1_
_No. 2_
_No. 3_
_No. 4_]
No. 1 shows a healthy heart beat. No. 2, the heart beat of a young man
while smoking. Where the mark ^ is, you will notice that the heart
skipped a full beat. No. 3, after smoking, with a partial skip in the
heart beat, even while under the stimulus of tobacco. No. 4, the heart
beat of a tobacco user.
The tobacco heart has become a prominent feature in the medical
diagnosis of the day.
_Danger to Growing Boys_
This progressive use of the Cigarette is especially true with boys in
the period of rapid growth. The wreath of Cigarette smoke which curls
about the head of the growing lad _holds his brain_ in an _iron grip_
which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as
surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl.
In the terrible struggle for survival against the deadly Cigarette
smoke, development and growth are sacrificed by nature, which in the
fight for very life itself, must yield up every vital luxury such as
healthy body growth and growth of brain and mind.
If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of Cigarette
smoke they _inhale imbecility_ and _exhale manhood_; that they are
tapping their arteries as surely and letting their life blood out as
truly as though their _veins and arteries were severed_, and that the
Cigarette is a maker of _invalids_, _criminals_, and _fools_--not
men--it ought to deter them some. _The yellow finger stains_ is an
emblem _of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and
chain_.
Hudson Maxim.
[Illustration: _Cigarette School Boy_]
[Illustration: _A Few Years Later_]
_Business Men and the Cigarette_
How do employers of men and boys rate the Cigarette smoker? Read the
following terse statements:--
“We might as well go to the _insane asylum_ for our men as to employ
Cigarette smokers.”--_The late E. H. Harriman, Railroad King._
“Never advance the pay of a Cigarette smoker; never _promote him_;
never _trust him_.”--_Elbert Hubbard._
“More and more young men are hoisting the sign, ‘I am a fool,’ by
appearing in public with a Cigarette.”--_P. M. Sharpless, Cream
Separator Manufacturer._
“The use of intoxicating liquor by men, and the use of Cigarettes
by boys, is creating a race of _feeble-minded_, _unhealthy_, and
_valueless citizens_.”--_John Wanamaker._
“We do not employ boys in the Larkin office, who smoke Cigarettes. An
applicant addicted to the use of Cigarettes would hardly interest us;
but if he seemed to possess qualifications that made him desirable,
he would have to _decide between Cigarettes and the job_.”--_Wm. R.
Heath, Vice-President Larkin Company, Buffalo._
The notice which follows was posted throughout the factory of the
Cadillac Motor Company, Nov. 28, 1911:
“Cigarette smoking is acquiring a hold on a great many boys in our
community; the habit has grown to an abnormal extent among boys and
men in the last year or two. Since it is such a bad practice, and is
taking such a hold upon so many people, we think it a _disgrace_ for
a grown man to smoke a Cigarette, because it is not only injurious to
his health, but is such a _bad example_ to the boys.
“Boys who smoke Cigarettes, we do _not care to employ_ or to _keep
in our employ_. In the future _we will not hire any one_ whom we
know to be addicted to this habit. It is our desire to weed it
entirely out of our factory just as soon as practicable. We will ask
every one in our factory who sees the seriousness of this habit to
use his influence in having it stamped out. We have two objects in
interesting ourselves in this matter. First, to help men and boys;
second, _We believe that men who do not smoke Cigarettes or frequent
saloons, can make better automobiles than those who do_.”
The following is an extract from the Fidelity, one of the oldest
insurance companies in America:--
“After a careful investigation we have decided that we will not bond
a man who uses Cigarettes, for such men _are not safe, physically or
morally_.”
“I verily believe that the _mental force_, _power of labor_, and
_endurance_ of our profession is decreased at least twenty-five per
cent by the use of tobacco.”--_Ex-Senator Doolittle, in an address
delivered to the graduating law class of Wisconsin University._
_Cigarettes and Tuberculosis_
The claim made by Surgeon General Rixey of the United States navy
that the smoking of Cigarettes is responsible for many of the cases
of _pulmonary tuberculosis_ that occur among the men of that body
is an interesting one. _The Cigarette_ has long been considered a
_dangerous luxury_, and taking into consideration the opinion of Dr.
Rixey, the statement that during the past three months the crew of
the ship Missouri--700 men--used _one thousand five hundred books of
Cigarette papers_, _one thousand two hundred pounds of tobacco_ and
_thirty-seven thousand Cigarettes_, the fact that the ratio of men
suffering from _pulmonary troubles_ in _our navy is larger than in
the navies of either Germany or England_, is not surprising. As a
matter of precaution and common sense, this devotion to the Cigarette
should at least be curbed to a very great extent.--_Washington Post._
“It has been brought to the attention of the bureau from many
sources,” says the surgeon general, “that Cigarette smoking is
becoming a _serious impediment to robust health in the navy_. This
habit seems to have taken a decided impetus in the service since the
Spanish war and has spread to incredible proportions.”--_The Deadly
Cigarette, Lucy Page Gaston._
_Leads to Drinking and Opium_
Dr. Chas. L. Hamilton, of the Keeley Institute, says: “The continual
_dryness_ of the mucous membranes of the mouth and pharynx, due to
the _paralyzing influence_ of the Cigarette on the nerve terminals
and which the drinking of water will not relieve, is readily quenched
by _alcoholic drinks_, and this discovery, once made by the Cigarette
habitue, leads to frequent indulgence in liquor, and aided by the
effort to combat malnutrition and its attendant weaknesses, almost
invariably causes him to become an _alcoholic inebriate_.”
Also a quotation from Dr. B. Broughton, in charge of the opium
department of the Keeley institute, Dwight, Ill.: “_More young men
are led into the opium habit by Cigarette smoking_ than by patent
and proprietary medicines. _Sixty per cent of all males_ under forty
years of age, treated at Dwight for morphin, opium, or cocaine using
in 1896 had been smokers of Cigarettes, and sixty per cent of these
had no other excuse than that they needed some _stimulant_ more than
the Cigarette furnished them.”
“Our experience here at Dwight, where many hundreds of Cigarette
cases have been treated, is that persons applying for treatment for
both liquor and cigarettes dread giving up their Cigarette more
than they do the liquor. Moreover, those who return to the use of
Cigarettes in after-life, are almost certain to resume the use of
liquor to allay the irritability of the nervous system produced by
tobacco smoke inhalation.”--_Some Effects of Tobacco Using._
_Cigars and Fires_
“Cigarettes for boys spell tragedy everywhere! The fire at Bangor
last Sunday began with a careless smoker. The Baltimore fire, the
Chelsea-Boston fire, the fire of the Windsor Hotel, New York, the
Albany Statehouse fire, and the Horrible Triangle Waist Company
holocaust, all of these, with charred human bodies, and wrecked
homes and lives, are traced to the carelessness and brutal disregard
accompanying the Cigarette habit.
“Fire Commissioner Waldo attributes 700 fires per year in New York to
this cause. The _tobacco companies_ deny the evil of their product,
and invite inspection of their premises and processes. But a mere
inspection of the Cigarette boys, in the public schools and factories
ought to be enough!”--_Editorial in Religious Weekly._
_Dangers of Inhaling_
The following paragraphs are selected from “Confessions of a Cigarette
Smoker in England.”
“Inhaling consists simply in drawing a _volume of smoke_ from the
Cigarette into the mouth, and then taking a deep breath, in the act
of which the smoke is carried from the mouth down into the lungs....
“Let the nicotin fumes go where they may, in their passage they
come into contact with the _nervous system_, and the result is an
_instantaneous communication to the brain_, which takes the form of a
momentary _semi-paralysis_--that is, when a man is new at the habit.
“I remember very well the experience of a youngster of _eighteen_ on
his being _taught to inhale_ the smoke of a Cigarette for the first
time. One afternoon some _friends persuaded_ him to make the attempt,
and he did so. Almost upon the instant he fell full length upon the
floor in a _dead faint_; and his features became pallid, his _pulse
faint and irregular_; and those about him were for a time in a great
fright. A day or two later he tried to inhale again, with a result
_not quite_ so bad; and he went on trying till now he is a _veritable
slave_ to the habit.
“A leading tobacconist in the city of London told me that in the
space of five years he had seen _regular frequenters_ of his shop
completely _broken down in mind and body_ through having contracted
the inhaling habit; moreover, that some of them were in the cemetery
who, he was convinced, need not have been there. Of course, the
medical certificate did not give inhaling tobacco smoke as the cause.
Very likely it said consumption. But I can quite believe, and so can
any confirmed inhaler, that it was the Cigarette that was the cause
of it all.
“The moral of all this is a simple one. _Never upon any
consideration_ be tempted to inhale for the first time. Probably this
_initial attempt_ would lead to the establishment of the habit, with
all the sad consequences I have enumerated. And, as I indicated at
the outset, breaking away from it is such a difficult matter that
_not one person in a thousand_ ever succeeds in the attempt. Inhaling
is one of those habits which _can not be broken off by degrees_.
The division must be drawn sharp and clean, and there must be no
smoking of any sort. To the confirmed inhaler this system of cure is
a painful one; but it is the only one I have known to succeed.”
_A Sure Cure_
“I have found a way to cure Jimmy of smoking Cigarettes,” said Mrs.
Maloney over the back fence to Mrs. O’Brien.
“And what is that?”
“By the laying on of hands. It is a great remedy and a sure cure.”
_A Campaign_
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