Show TIME TO CALL HALT ON TOBACCO HABIT editor deseret news I 1 feel eel like entering a protest against the use ot of the deadly cigarette I 1 know by actual experience that the cigarette Is not good tor for man while a youth ot of 18 two companions and I 1 were working in the timber limber cutting saw logs among the pines where the ax ot of man had never ever r swung before our nearest neighbors were wolf and doer deer As we did our cooking over the old camp t fire my two companions older than 1 I taught me to smoke the deadly charette cg arette first I 1 took them arif r meals only but soon I 1 smoked many between meals within tl afree ree weeks 1 I had graduated in the tae art of the cigarette my companions C mii anions seemed to be proud 0 of f their work only three months and I 1 had become a slave to a foul piece of paper think of it young inan and take warning in time when the three months were up I 1 took an inventory of 0 myself I 1 found I 1 was losing strength the smoking was effecting my breathing I 1 could hardly hold bold up my end of the logs I 1 decided to quit I 1 did quit once tor for all but oil oh what a struggle I 1 had at night I 1 dreamed I 1 was smoking and waking up I 1 would have that terrible craving for a sil smoke loke but I 1 stayed with my resolution ol ution young men old men leave the cigarette alone it is robbing iou of the best in you but worst of all you are not a free man mail now at the age of 65 1 I am thankful I 1 had the courage to quit when 1 did my two companions have pl passed ased away years ago I 1 think they were aided by the cig arette along their path to an aa eaily grave they have left boys who are tobacco fiends knowing all the eferts 0 of the cigarette arette an and d se see em biag g so 0 o many returned soldiers manhood using the weed I 1 teel feet like calling a halt for it grieves me for their sake W T NELSON morgan utah deseret news 1 |