Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1913 — Peppermint and Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

Peppermint and Tobacco.

If you have a boy who has begun smoking too early and whom you wish to cure of the habit, feed him pepperments. Dr. O. Clayton Jones of Silverton, England, writing in the London Lancet, Is authority for this simple cure. Dr. Jones writes: "To break the smoking habit in a youth there is nothing better than peppermint drops. He cannot smoke with a ’bullseye’ In his mouth, and even for some time after it Is dissolved tobacco will not blend kindly with the taste that remains. Socially the cure may seem worse than the disease, but from a medical point of view the sucking of peppermints Is far less hurtfuL A common ‘bullseye’ will prevent smoking for nearly an hour, so the amount of sweets used need not be great.”