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Show 8MOKING Most boys do not learn to smoke because they like tobacco, but because be-cause their school fellows smoko. Unruly boys aro almost always addicted ad-dicted to tho cigarette habit. Smoking Smok-ing robs pupils of their docility. Hec-ords Hec-ords kept of the work- of students who were not addicted to tho smoking smok-ing habit when they entered tho high school, but ho acquired It later, show that not only did these pupils become hnrdcr to manage, but the quality of their school work declined greatly. What a hold the smoking evil has gained on the public school boys is Indlcnted by the statements made by, a Inumber of high school principals, who declare that from fifty to eighty per cent of high school pupils aro now using cigarettes. It is an Interesting fact that the strongest sentiments against sinking has arisen In commu titles In which the raising of tobacco is the principal princi-pal Industry. Tobacco men do not want young boys in their own community com-munity to smoke. |