Smoking Leads To Crime!

When you have arraigned before you, boys hopelessly deaf through the excessive use of cigarettes, boys who have stolen their sisters earnings, boys who absolutely refuse to work, who do nothing but gamble and steal, you can not help seeing that there is sonic direct cause. I and a great deal of this boyhood crime is in my mind easy to trace to the deadly cigarettes. There is something in the poison of the cigarette that seems to get into the system of the boy and to destroy all moral fiber. He gives the following probable course of the boy who begins to smoke cigarettes. First cigarettes, Second beer and liquors, Third craps petty gambling, Fourth horse racing gambling on a bigger scale, Fifth larceny Sixth state prison. Not long ago a boy in New York robbed his mother and actually beat her because she would not give him money with which to buy cigarettes. Every little while we see accounts in newspapers all over the country of all kinds of petty thefts and misdemeanors which boys commit in order to satisfy the cigarette mania. 

Cigarettes are soaked in Opium?

Another New York City magistrate says Yesterday I had before me thirty five boy
prisoners, thirty three of them were confirmed cigarette smokers. Today from a reliable source, I have made the gruesome discovery that two of the largest cigarette manufacturers soak their product in a weak solution of opium. The fact that out of thirty five prisoners, thirty three smoked cigarettes might seem to indicate some direct connection between cigarettes and crime And when it is announced on authority that most cigarettes are doped with opium, this connection is not hard to understand Opium is like whiskey, it creates an increasing appetite that grows with what it feeds upon. A growing boy who lets tobacco and opium get a hold upon his senses is never long in coming under the domination of whiskey and Tobacco. Or is the boys easiest and most direct road to whiskey? When opium is added, the young mans chance of resisting the combined forces and escaping physical mental and moral harm is slim indeed. Indeed, Young men of great natural ability everywhere some of them in high positions are constantly losing their grip, deteriorating, dropping back, losing their ambition, their push, their stamina and their energy because of its deadly hold upon them. If there is anything a young man should guard as divinely sacred it is his ability to think clearly forcefully and logically.

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 Cigarettes Kill Frogs and Cats!

Dr J. Kellogg says A few months ago, I had all the nicotine removed from a cigarette making a solution out of it I injected half the quantity into a frog with the effect that the frog died almost instantly The rest was administered to another frog with like effect, Both frogs were full grown and of average size. The conclusion is evident that a single cigarette contains enough poison to kill two frogs. A boy who smokes twenty cigarettes a day has inhaled enough poison to kill forty frogs. Why does the poison not kill the boy? It doesn't kill him If not immediately he will die sooner or later of weak heart, Bright disease or some other malady which scientific physicians everywhere now recognize as a natural result of chronic nicotine poisoning.
A chemist not smoking since, took the tobacco used in an average cigarette and soaked it in several teaspoonfuls of water and then injected a portion of it under the skin of a cat. The cat almost immediately went into convulsions and died in fifteen minutes. Dogs have been killed with a singe drop of nicotine. A young man died in a Minnesota state institution not long ago who five years before had been one of the most promising young physicians of the West Still under thirty years at the time of his commitment to the institution says the newspaper account of his story, he had already made three discoveries nervous diseases that had made him looked up to in his profession. But he smoked cigarettes smoked incessantly. For a long time the effects of the habit were not apparent on

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him In fact it was not until a patient died on the operating table under his hands and the young doctor went to pieces that it became known that he was a victim of the paper pipes. But then he had gone too far, He was a wreck in his mind as well as in body and he ended his days in a manics cell.

Smoking Makes You Stupid!

Anything which impairs ones success capital which cuts his achievement and makes him a possible failure when he might have been a grand success is a crime against himself. Anything which benumbs the senses deadens the sensibilities dulls the mental faculties and takes the edge off ones ability is a deadly enemy and there is nothing else which effects this so quickly as the cigarette. It is said that within the past fifty years not a student at Harvard University who used tobacco has been graduated at the head of his class although on the average five out of six use tobacco. An investigation of all the students who entered Yale University during nine years shows that the cigarette smokers were the inferiors both the weight and lung capacity of the non-smokers although they averaged fifteen months older. Dr Fiske of the Northwestern Academy has asked all pupils who will not give up cigarettes to leave the academy. In one year not one of the boys who used cigarettes stood in the front rank of scholarship.

This is our experience in teaching more than fifty thousand young people says the principal of a great business college. Cigarettes bring shattered nerves, stunted growth and general physical and mental degeneration. We refuse to receive users of tobacco in our institution.

The cigarettes on the left were the oldest commercial cigarette ad we found and this one was from 1895.