Show S TOBACCO AN ANTISEPTIC Smokers will rejoice over the discovery cry ery announced by the London Lancet that there Is formaldehyde in appreciable ble q in tobacco smoke There is more of It In cigars than in pipe pipe to tobacco co and lens IES in cigarettes than in either Now formaldehyde in milk and other articles of food has been known to cause deaths in tobacco It is regard regarded ed ad by the Lancet as de decidedly benefi ial The gre great t medical journal points out that formaldehyde is sure death deth to various va various rious harmful germs genus and that the circulation lation of It In minute quantities in the mouth nostrils and even the lungs has bas hasa basa a good effect However before the paean of thanks thanksgiving thanksgiving giving arises from he smokIng fra fraternity fraternity it is well to call caU to the fact that the I Lancet does not advocate cate smoking as a sort nott of against the ills that flesh is heir beir to Immunity from some diseases it is claimed my may be had by the use of t to tobacco bacco but the Lancet feels sure that this immunity ma may be i purchased at a avery avery very high cost Many smokers are sub subject je t to ills iUs unknown to the nonsmoker ills iUs that more than counterbalance any trifling immunity they may gaIn from smoking Therefore the nonsmoker is advised to bear the ills he has with such pa patience patience tience as he be Cn can muster instead of fly flying lag ing to evils evits that he knows not of and I might be sorry to get mIxed up with Still the smoker is en entitled to all the comfort he can g get t out of the Lancets discovery As he puffs away at his cigar his pipe or his cigarette he can aft C comfort himself with the thought that though he be Is doing himself a good deal of harm he is also at atle le least st a modicum of good for himself |