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Show A YOUNG TOBACCO FIEND. The Indianapolis News says: A 4-year-old boy at the Surgical Institute is undergoing treatment for spinal troubles, which have undoubtedly been brought about by much smoking of cigars and cigarettes. The father of the child, a respectable gentleman from Clay City, states that his son has been a heavy smoker for a year and a half, and that cigars were necessarily given him from his infancy to keep him quiet. The little fellow will smoke 2 stoga cigars in a day, and still cry for more. A year after this fearful habit was indulged spinal unease set in, and the boy was brought here for treatment. The first remedy applied was to deprive him of tobacco, which so enraged the youngster that he kicked and howled like a maniac. He refused to be comforted without his tobacco, but the doctors are inexorable. |