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Show BLIGHTING EFFECT OP THE CIGARETTE "The Blight of the Cigarette" was tho subject of an Impressive sermon given last night In the First Methodist Metho-dist church by Rev. G. F. Rassweiler, whoso text was, 1 Cor. 3 16-17, "Know ye not that ye aro tho temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelloth in you? If any man defile the templo of God, him shall God destroy; de-stroy; for tho templo of God is holy, which templo ye are." In part, ho said "Paul considers our bodies to be a sacred dwelling of the spirit of God, and therefore something which it woro sacrilege to defile. Tho body and tho soul are so closely knit to-fgether to-fgether that -what affects the one influences in-fluences tho other. To defile the body Is to pervert the soul. DoeB tobacco defile the body? Let us see. Thero Is enough poison in one cigar to kill two men, If lt -were token straight This nicotine -weakens tho heart, thins tho blood, disturbs thp digestion, di-gestion, benumbs tho brain, disturbs tho nerves, and hastens the development develop-ment of cancer and consumption. Dr. Dlo Lewis said that for fifty years no smoker took first honors in the University Uni-versity of Harvard, though flve-sIxthB of the students smoked. Rescue workers and doctors assure us that tho effect of tobacco on the tender lining of the mouth is the cause of ; an Irritation that Induces a thirst for liquor. These effects are much more ' pronounced upon those using the weed in youth. "But whatever can be said of plain I tobacco, lt must be said that the l cigarctto multiplies the evil many fold. PhyslcianB have lately found j the reason, Tho glycerlno in cigarettes ciga-rettes for the purpose of making it i soft and easily rolled, though lnno- cent enough in Its fluid form, -when burnt makes a very deadly, cas, and this unites with the gas of the burning burn-ing paper which is also very injurious, and In combination -with lt makes a still more deadly gas. The habit of inhaling this makes lt still more destructive. de-structive. Even the cigarette tobacco used in a pipe and Inhaled would be much worse than the cigar or other forms of tobacco. And upon youth the effects of tho cigarette are alarmingly alarm-ingly demoralizing. It dwarfs the body, stunts tho mind, shatters tho nerves, weakens the heart, devitalizes the body, affects the eyesight and hastens consumption. A cigarette is a health wrecker with a vengeance. During the South African war the recruiting re-cruiting officers found the new soldiers sol-diers so enervated from the use of cigarettes that it was declared that it would take three years to get them into good military condition, and that if something was not done the material ma-terial coming to the army would be so weak In body and will that they would be incapable of vigorous effort So the navy department of the United States informs, us that the use of the cigarette is threatening tho efficiency efficien-cy of our navy. A large number of the applicants have to be refused because be-cause of defects in eyesight, heart action, ac-tion, etc., caused by cigarettes. Well are they called 'coffin nails.' Some time ago a test was made of 40 boys taken at random in a certain high school, twenty cigarette smokers, and twenty non-smokers. Not one of the smokers was in an excellent physical condition, and there were about ten times as. many in poor physical condition con-dition as among tho non-smokers. 'Coffin nails' Is right Not one of these twenty smokers had an 'excellent' 'excel-lent' in grade. Most of them were from a year to two and a half years behind their grades. Twelve times as many were marked as navlng poor memories, nine times as many were under grade, eighteen times as many were In bad mental condition, and there'were 40 times as many failures among tho smokers as among the non-smokers. The smokers had only ten per cent of a chance of finishing high school, while the non-smokers had 95 per cent Surely the cigarette is a brain stealer. Dr. Forbes Wins-low Wins-low of England, a recognized authority author-ity on insanity, declares that the three chief causes of insanity, which is increasing so alarmingly, arc. cigarettes ciga-rettes and heredity, to which should be added vice and its diseases A H-arette is a fino asylum ticket all right In fact, the gTeat railway magnate,' mag-nate,' Mr. JIarrimau, said that one might as well go to an insane asylum for railway employes as to get cigarette ciga-rette smokers. This was, of course, an exaggeration in order to be forceful force-ful but it is remarkable that cigarette ciga-rette smokers should bo debarred from such great employers of labor as the Chicago & Rock Island railroad the Burlington, tho Swift Packing company, tho Ford Auto company. Montgomery Ward & Co. One of the oldest fidelity companies refuBes to bond cigaretto smokors. "This follows from the fact that cigarette cig-arette smoking, especially by boys and youths is productive of criminal tendencies, and moral depravity. Judge Crane of New York declared that out of 300 boys brought into his court 295 wero cigaretto smokers. In tho Illinois reformatory. 92 por cont under 15 years wero smokers, and tho same was true in tho Cook county reform re-form school This habit In youth develops de-velops a marked tendency to untruthfulness, untruth-fulness, vice and depravity. Dr. TownoB, the specialist on the cure of tho drug habit, says that tho throo steps are cigarettes, then drink, then morphine. Undoubtedly they are soul perverters. And like drugs, tho habit Is an exceedingly enslaving oue and hardor to stop than drink. In fact, Dr. Townes Bays that just as with morphine, a reconstruction of tho bodily bod-ily structure or chemistry is necessary- "It is then the more alarming to learn that tho habit is growing with such rapidity, at the rate of 33 1-3 percent per year, so that at tho present pres-ent rate of increase, in fifteen years 90 per cent of the men would be cigarette cig-arette Bmokors. Already we use 15,-000,000,000 15,-000,000,000 per year; $1,470,000,000 Is spent por year on tobacco, seven times our fire loss, three times what we spend for education, and four and a half times as much as we spend for our army and navy. ''Oue man who used to smoke six cigars per day at 6 l-2c apiece, swore off and saved that money at com- jH pound interest, and at the end of 39 IH years, had $29,000 Can people justly H complain of poverty when they have IB money like this to burn? H "To help in stopping the habit af- IH ter each meal rinse out. the mouth IB with a quarter of one per cent solu- IH tlon of silver nitrate, which makes H smoking distasteful, then chew gen- H tlon root when bothered with the IH craving and swallow the fluid. For 1 two weeks take half a spoonful each v IH of Rochelle Salts and cream of tar- H ter every morning before breakfast jH Keep busy and exercise as much as H possible." tH |
