Show smoked by women A new fact ha has come coma to light connected with cigarettes that one would think would arrest the growing practice of smoking them especially ally by women the T he fe finer sensibilities ties of women have hitherto been sufficient to prevent the general use of tobacco in any form by them but there are to d a T who uee cigarettes and the use tends to a degradation altogether beyond what comes of being a slave to the vile weed it is now known that old castaway cigar stumps are used in the manufacture of cigarettes boy are employed to gather them from hotels barrooms bar rooms sidewalks from wherever they are collectors buy them of the boys and send them to the manufactories manu factories by the barrel no matter matte how dis disgusting u ting tino the spot whence they are pie picked ed whether whether from the spittoon with wit its dangerous saliva or the gutter with its filth the foul refuse finds its way into the mouth and nostrils of the cigarette smoker but that was not all many a smoker throws away the stump of his cigar because he does doets not liko like the flavor of it he does not know why tho the flavor is unpleasant to him but it is caused by nicotine the active principle of tobacco and a violent poison this accumulates in the base of the cigar with every draft of the smoke and the man noticing the ant flavor throws the stump away this reservoir of nicotine finds its way into tile cigarette and the person erson who smokes it gets in a condensed form tho tile poison alich s so often works nil mischief on the brains of habitual smokers but even this is not the wont worst of it these cigar stumps havo have been in the mouths of all sorts of men drunkards fast young men rotten old coues whose very kaae or touch or even the tile pencil they have held in their mouth might communicate the foulest and most fearful disease tb that t cornea comes to a it human being |