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Show TRANSFORMATION OF NICOTINE Electrified tobacco is tho latest product pro-duct of applied Bcicnco Its appcaranco upon the market as one of tho novelties novel-ties of the Christmas season Is of considerable con-siderable Importance and scientific in teres t. Ilecent experiments have suggested that beneficial effects may be derived by electrical treatment of milk and wine but this treatment has hardly emerged from the laboratory stage. The electrical treatment of tobacco up on the merits 0 which the public have now tho opportunity of personal proof is the outcomo of several years' experiment covered by a patent. Whereas the experiments on milk were conducted in Paris, the Important Import-ant discovery of tbo beneficial Influence Influ-ence of electricity upon tobacco has been made In England by Edward J. Lusby of Crouch End. Mr. Lusby's ox pertinents hao been closely followed by some of tho leading scientists of tho day. The principle of tho treatment treat-ment may be better described as ozo-nlsatlon ozo-nlsatlon or tho submission of tho moist tobacco to tho powerful sterilizing steriliz-ing effects of nascent ozone. Uacterla and tho lower forms of organic life cannot live In tho prcsenco of ozone and tho oil of nicotine UbcIC Is transformed trans-formed Into a much less Injurious oil known as nlcotyrlne. All moist tobaccos contain mold spores from which grows the famllla1' mildew. These spores aro killed by electrically produced ozone so that electrified tobacco has perfect keeping qualities. The dissipation of nlcotino Into nlcotyrlne which takes place at tho samo time removes from tobacco all Irratlng roughness nnd makes cigar ci-gar and cigarette smoking a pleasure. In an Intervlow with one of our representatives rep-resentatives Lusby gavo some details of his discovery. "Tho patent," ho said, "was granted in February, 1905 but wo have given under expert supervision super-vision a five years' test of tho efficiency effi-ciency of tho process. Most tobaccos electrically treated five yohrs ago and placed along sido ordinary tobacco of tho samo variety has remained unchanged un-changed The electrification Is carried out In an aluminum chamber and experience ex-perience has shown that different tobaccos to-baccos requlro different treatment owing ow-ing presumably, to their varying conductivity. con-ductivity. Turkish tobacco, for ln-stanco ln-stanco requires ft much higher voltage to produce tho deslrod effect. What effect will it havo upon the tobacco Industry T It promises a revolution. Smoke two clgnars or two cigarettes, one that has been electrified and one that has not, and note tho difference. There is all the difference In tbo world." Tho absence of any irritant from the electrified products Is certainly very marked. Mildness without loss flavor appears to bo the most notice-ablo notice-ablo feature. Lusby Is not confining his researches to tobacco. Ills success suc-cess hero has led htm to oxporlment In a wider field. ' ondon Stnnda'd. |