Show survey of school on tobacco A survey y lias has been made under the direction of the seminary teacher air gunn on oil the number lumber of smokers in the D C 11 II S the following report was submitted out of a total number ol of boys 29 are smokers smoke s the ages that they hey started smoking range ws as follows at 6 5 years of age ae I 1 smokes 6 years 3 8 years 3 9 years 2 10 years 7 12 years 7 14 years 3 16 years 1 out of a total of girls 4 are smokes smoke s their ages ranging as follows I 1 12 ayears years 1 14 years 1 I 15 years 1 16 yeats years 1 these facts wre were submitted by the boys and girls of the anti aati cigarette league according to dr john harrey kellogg a cigarette may contain a a grain of nicotine besides other poisonous p products 3 including creosote byrldine pyrl dine re and prussic acid al ways present in the smoke experiments have been made that show that orne one drop of tills this liquid will kill a sparrow in seventy seconds one and one half drops will kill a in twelve minutes one halt half drop will paralyze a mouse instantly wo cubic centimeters injected into the he system of a gulena pig resulted n violent convulsions paralysis of the he hind legs and aad pa paresis esis the injurious effects of the eig cig bw arette upon the human system seem to be analogous to that of different forms forma of drug drugs o such as codine heron and opium itself this is especially true of the excessive cigarette smoker who inhales the smoke for according to dr kellogg the lining of the air cells and tubes of the lungs has a su surface face of 1000 1 square feet under which ivsich bl a of blood equal to all of the blood in the body courses every minute and o re w half thru this delicate membrane the tobacco poisons pass into the blood with gle greatest facility and saturate tile the tissues far more quickly than when taken into the stomach or by hypodermic injection tire the th e extent of injury ju y thus caused however depends upon the physical resistance and vital reserve of 0 the individual smoker tie tae boy and girl have not this reserve therefore they succumb to the habit very early U S surgeon general hugh S cummings makes the following statements state menta based apora government reports the cigarette habit indulged in by women tends to ca cause r ness and insomnia if american women generally contract the habit hab it as reports now indicate they are doi dobie ig the entire american nation will suffer buffer buff f er the ce reaction action is more intense ruining her complexion causing jt it I 1 to become gradually yellow and asai en |