Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1912 — CIGARETTES HARD ON HOWARD YORK [ARTICLE]

CIGARETTES HARD ON HOWARD YORK

14-Year-Old Boy Smoked Them Almost to the Point of Delirium and Condition Is Serious. ■ i '• The danger of cigarettes ‘was brought close home this week when physicians found that Howard York, 14 years of age, was almost at the point of delirium in consequence of smoking them. Howard is the son of Mrs. Emma J. York, and is a clever and hustling youth, but he has been smoking cigarettes for some time and has become such a slave to the habit that he has wrecked his nervous system and for the past two or three days has been confined at his home on Austin avenue in a serious condition. His mother is absent, visiting a sister in Illinois and has not been advised of his coditlon, as the physicians said that the boy’s condition was not apt to result fatally. It will be necessary, however, that he refrain from using cigarettes after he recovers from the present attack. This should serve as a warning to boys and their parents to break up the deplorable habit so generally followed by boys in this city.