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Show Timely Topics By C. V. Hansen The saddest effects of cigarette smoking is mental. The physical signs cf deterioration have then' mental counterparts. Sir William Hamilton once said: "There is nothing in matter but man; there is nothing gieat in man but mind." The cigarette smoker takes man's distinguishing faculty and uncrowns it. He "puts an enemy in his mouth to steal away his brains." Anything which impairs one's success capital, which cuts down his achievement and makes him a possible failuie when he might have been a grand success, is a crime against him. Anything that benumbs the senses, deadens the sensability, dulls the mental faculties, facul-ties, and takes the edge of one's ability, is a deadly enemy, and there is nothing which effects all this ara quickly as the cigarette. It is said that in fifty years not a ntudent cf Harvard University who used tohaco;. graduated at the head of his class. 80 per cent of the C-19K3 stroked. |