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Show The Result of Cigarettes What Physicians Say, and How The Big Firms Refuse Cigarette Smokers. Boys sometimes think that while I the elgai and the pipe may be bad, no , harm can come from so small a thing asaclgaielte. '1 hat Is a great mistake mis-take Through cigarettes alone many boys have been stunted In growth, have been made so nerxous that the j haunslicmbled, anil have weakened I their brain power until they could no . longer keep up with their grades at I school. In many Insiance-t, loo, these j were boys who before using cigarettes, had led their classes. Dr. C. A Clinton, of the San Francisco Fran-cisco board of education sajs: "Cigarette smoking blunts the whole moral nature. It has an appalling ap-palling effect upon the whole system. It stupelU-s the nerves. It sends boys into consumption. It gives them enlargement of the heart, and It sends them Into the asylum. Dr. Lewis A. Sayic pronounces cigarettes cig-arettes to be worse for boys than pipes or cigars, and paper cigarettes to be worse than tobacco cigarettes, perhaps because the paper absorbs more of the nicotine. A physician who had strong suspicion that cigarettes were not as harmless as they were claimed to be, had one analyzed. The tobacco was found to be strongly Impregnated with opium, wlille the wrapper, warranted war-ranted to be rice paper, proved to be common paper whitened with arsenic. A chemist in New York city purchased pur-chased from prominentdealcrs a dozen packages of the highest-priced cigarettes. cigar-ettes. Those ho sent for analysis to an eminent chemist in another State, and was astounded by ids report of the quantity or opium found In these standard brands. A young man exhibited symptoms of heart disease, the pulsations sometimes some-times almost ceasing, and again so nc-celeiatcd nc-celeiatcd that he could scarcely catch his breath, and seemed on the point of dying. On consulting a doctor he was told that all these symptoms came from the use of cigarettes, and on banishing them his health was restored. re-stored. Blindness From Cigarettes An eminent doctor says: "We look upon the cigarette as a leading demoralization demo-ralization of the last twenty-live years. Accordingly to the Philadelphia Times several leading physicians of that city "unanimously condemn cigarette smoking as one of the vilest and most desttucllvc evils that ever befell the jouth of our country," declaring that 'Its direct tendency Is a deterioration of the race." One of these physicians atllrm that within a single week he had two patients who had been made blind by clgaretts 300 Rejections. Out of 112 boys examined by the naval enlisting oillcer only lit were accepted. Of the 2IIS rejections the greater number were on account of weak hearts, and In the majority of ctses this was causd by cigarette smoking. Swift it Co. and other Cnicago business busi-ness houses employing hundreds of boys have Issued this announcement or aslmlliar one: "So impressed are we with the danger of cigarette using that we wilt not employ a cigarette user." In John Wanamaker's stores the application ap-plication blank to be tilled out by boys applying for a position reads: "Do you use tobacco or elgaiettes?" A negative answer is favorable to their acceptance as employes. Smokers Not Hired. Aycr's Sarsaparllla company, Lowell, where hundreds of boys are employed: "April 1, '2. Believing that the smoking smok-ing ot cigarettes is injurious to both mind and body, thereby unllttiug the young men for their best work therefore, there-fore, mur this date, we will not employ em-ploy .my young man under twenty-one years of age who smokes cigarettes." The assistant general manager of the Cumbei land Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph company has Issued the following follow-ing order: "You are directed to serve notice that the use of cigarettes after August 1, '2, will be prohibited; and jou arc furtner Instructed to, In the future, refuse to employ any one, who is addicted to the habit " The Pittsburg and Western tallroad forbids the use of cigarettes by the attaches at-taches of passenger trains, and notllles tiavclers that thev must; not smoke cigarettes In the passenger coaches of the company. On the West Superior, Wisconsin lalhoad, twenty. live laborers working on a bridge, were discharged by the roadmaster because they were smoking smok-ing cigarettes. |