Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1885 — The Deadly Cigarette. [ARTICLE]

The Deadly Cigarette.

Cigarette smoking has the same effect on boys and young men as opium has cm grown people. The tobacco ■which the cigarettes are made of is so mild in taste that the smoke from them can be drawn on the lungs or inhaled, which, in time, will have an injurious effect upon the smoker. The inveterate cigarette smoker will reject a fine imported cigar for a c'garette, preferring the latter, which, in bundles, cost only half a cent apiece. The price of the article ought in itself to be a sufficient proof that cigarettes are made out of common material, and cheap things are always bad. Some people imagine that gum opium is used in cigarettes, but this is a mistake, as that drug costs $6 a pound, which would be too expensive to the cigarette manipulator. The white paper is bleached by an arsenical preparation, and that is poisonous enough, heaven knows. Cigarettes ought to be stamped out of existence, for they are sapping the life out of our young men.— —Tobacco dealer’,in Brooklyn Union.