Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — When Tobacco Injures Men. [ARTICLE]

When Tobacco Injures Men.

“I believe that ninety-nine men ent of every hundred who use tobacco are injured by it ” Such is the opinion of a man who has been prominent tn the tobacco business for twenty years. “I know it has hurt my health," he contented, “but I cannot throw off the habit the most dangerous cigars are those inported, and the rich heavy haypna contains enough nicotine to be really poisonous if used often The reason for this superabundance of nicotine in the imported cigars can be charged to the soil on which is grown the tobacco. Domestic cigars are much less harmful, but to men accustomed to imported ones they taste like so much hay. “The ideal smoker is he who buys seven French briarwood pipes, and uses one every day in the week, carefully cleansing it when through smoking, and using only the best granulated Virginia leaf. But a cigar- smoker rarely can accustom himself to the use of a pipe. Tobacco rarely injures laborers who walk along with picks over their shoulders and short little clay pipes in their mouths. They smoke cheap domestic tobacco in the open air, and in day pipes. But then, bless my soul! it’s worth while to cut off a year of one’s life if one can enjoy good cigars during all the others!” — Philadelphia Press.