Show DO NOT SMOKE to preach against vices la 18 often as aa discouraging as aa to fight flies and moa quitter quit oer they will grow and ana multiply As a long as aa favorable conditions exist W witness atness for instance the habit of huking in general and cigarette smoking in particular this vice the whole medics profession has baa almost unanimously denounced as one of the most destructive in its results the gentlemen Kent lemen of the pulpit have warned against it arid and thousands who are victims of the poison nave have added their testimony to the ruin wrought to in their nervous system but in spite of all this smokane is still going odone can hardly walk down the street a busy day without having to inhale a portion of soot blown from the mouth 0 of a smoker on entering or leaving a street oar car the perfume is ia sure eure to meet one but this is nothing when compared with the atmosphere that prevails lu in some rome homes where old men and young boys pollute the air tor for wife and children and unsuspecting visitors by puffing at ai old disgusting pipes pipea or burning the innocent looking cigarette if it is true that over five hundred millions of these little infernal machines are manufactured in this thia country alone an idea may be formed of the hold the vice of smoking has baa upon our nation there are many reasons why a regular crusade should be commenced against the habit to mention only one it is injurious to the health even if the supplied aup plied the smoker with pure leaves the continual inhaling ot 01 the smoke I 1 is according to high authority liable to cause serious functional disturbances affecting the heart the brain the mucous membrane of the mouth and the bronchial brou chial surface of the lungs iuda in the young the habit of smoking causes impairment of growth premature manhood and physical degradation f says saya one physician after having studied the subject thoroughly but the fact is ia that the smoker very seldom gets an unadulterated article iu in the larger cities little ragged urchins may be seen scouring the streets and gutters for stumps of cigars and cigarettes these theae they carefully gather be they ever so 0 o mud covered and rigby filthy and sell beell them to the manufacturers manufacture ra who work them over and serve them to their millio oB of customers cust omere Th the high ehigh toned dude who inhales the smoke of f his hie cigarette little dreams dreame what stuff he la Is holding between his hie delicate lips lipa but worse woree still Tobacco olata admit that drugs druga are used io in cigarettes oiga rettea to an appalling extent A deadly poison Is ie extracted from the tonka bean and sold ws aa havana flavoring and the wrappers are often made from the filthy paper pieces picked up in the streets et arsenic being used to bleach it A smoker who would reflect on this ought to feel it his duty if he be has hag any manhood left to break away from the habit and keep his hia body clean and pure as ae it was waa in tended to be when modelled modeller model led by the great creator |