Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — A Cigarette Dude. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Cigarette Dude.

This is the puny youth who smokes the deadly cigarette which chokes those near him with it’s poisoned fumes and fast and sure his life consumes. With fingers reeking with its stain, with stunted form and weakened brain and pallid face this wretched slave goes gaily to his early grave without will power to release himself from dangers that increase. Poor little fool! He may not know that if to manlroood he would grow he, at his present age, needs all the strength he wastes by vices small to pull him thro’ the evil traps that tempt and ruin growing fhaps and that the worst that him besets is opium loaded cigarettes which paralyze his heart and brain nnd leave him dead or else insane. Youth! be a m an with robust health and ma nhood’s • vigor, power and wealth. D on’t be a shriveled stunted freak w Ith mind and body dwarfed and we ak from smoking cigaret tes com posed of rotten s craps all decorn posed. —H. C. Dodne.