Show it old nick the champion long distance smoker U NODS 1 SAM has the champion long distance smoker of the world consuming 1000 cigars a day on an average they call him old nick not because he Is in any way diabolic but because he can hold an amazing amount of nicotine and it takes very little effort of the imagination to characterize old nick as a human being for in makeup make up he performs all the functions of the flesh and blood lover of the weed even to the action of the lungs old nick is merely an ingenious apparatus for testing cigars uncle sams mechanical man is no fastidious chooser of what he smokes ces the most expensive imported brand and the humblest of the domestic are the same to him in the lower lefthand left hand corner of his mechanical anatomy is a jar in the cork of which are inserted the tubes holding tour four cigars the receptacle contains water which takes up the nicotine so it is that none of it gets into the lungs of old nick and the smoke that goes out from his mouth the exhaust is wholly free from nicotine the lung is at the extreme right and inhales and exhales the smoke of the cigars A tube leads into the lung from the jar into which four individual cigar tubes are placed there is also an intermediate jar which arrests whatever of the nicotine manhave may have escaped from the direct repository thus you see that while old nick may be literally soaked in nicotine and be a confirmed inhaler he has none of the vice of the inhaler tor for the smoke that enters his lungs bears no deleterious elements |