Show UU SIXTY CIGARETTES DAILY AVERAGE NUMBER SMOKED BY AN IOWA PEDDLER After Consuming Nearly 1000000 Isaac Manhoff of Dubuque Dc cldes He Has Had Enough and Quits Using Them Dubuque IaVida a record of nearly 1000000 cigarettes at an average av-erage of GO a day Isaac Manhoff a peddler 40 years old has decided to renounce the weed The habit had such a hold on him that It was necessary neces-sary to awake at all hours of the night nnd roll a coffin nail before he could bo lulled to sleep again When a lad In Russia he began the habit which he found so hard to shako off Despite this fact he will devote his days to trying to convince men and boys that they should cease the practice Manhoff was in the habit of smoking ten cigarettes before breakfast and the rest of the day a cigarette was out of his mouth only a few minutes at a time For a man who has inhaled the fumes of so many cigarettes Manhoff is a strong man He weighs about 176 pounds and has a massive chest and a square build He says You see when I awoke In the morning the first thing I wanted was a cigarette Generally I smoked about ten before breakfast No I never smoked while eating but as soon as I finished I would put one In my mouth Then through tho day I would smoke them continuously one uow and another shortly after Then night would come and I would smoke them late and many times oven In bed Have you ever smoked a cigar I have smoked two cigars In my life I couldnt smoke them because they made mo sick When 1 get cigars now I give them to my friends How did you happen to quit smoking smok-ing Well you see it was Just like this When I was afflicted with a cold I usually got hoarse and while I smoked tho hoarseness grew more intense One day not long ago the thought oc cuiicd to me that I should forsake the cigarettes It was then and there that I made up my mind to never smoke another one What was about your cigarettes that was different from others Well when I smoked I always used tho Russian rice paper and not tit i rag paper used generally In America Why If I had smoked tho rag paper Instead of the rico I would have been dead long ago Manhoff estimated the cost of his smoking at 3191 |