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Show Timely Topics RY C. V. HANSEN The face of the cigarette snvik-ing snvik-ing boy is pallid and haggard. I he cheeks hollow, the skin drawn, there is loss of frankness and expression; ex-pression; the eye are shifty, the, mcvements nervous and uncertain. Mnng with this physical deterioration deterior-ation there goes on a moral determination de-termination which robs the cigarc olt.e smokinir bnv of refinement and manners. The moral depravity which sometimes follows the cigarette habit is appalling lying, cheating, swearing. Impurity, loss-of loss-of courage and manhood. A com-Dlete com-Dlete dropping of life's standards results from su-h indulgence. Dr. Lewis Bremer, lute physician physi-cian of St. Vincent's Institution for the Insane, says. "Basing m,v opinion on experiences gained in private sanitariums and hospitals, I will Htate thHt. the boy who smokes cigarettes cigar-ettes at seven, will arink whiskey at fourteen, take morphine at twenty-five, wind up at thirty with cocaine and the rest of the narcotics." |