Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Cigarette Smoking. [ARTICLE]

Cigarette Smoking.

From rme of our exchange we dlpj the following; In view of the greed quantity ot etgarrettes used at tbel present time It should he reed and] considered with ears. “Cigarette I smoking la now a fashionable habit'! and one that Is increasing among half j grown boys; and it Is tha opinion es well-knosvn physicians that if ihvj habit Is not eheckad additions to our] asylums will ba in order. A pbysn d*n, satisfied that then was death in] that form of tobacco, had a cigarette analysed. The result waa startling. The tobaeoo waa found to be strongly Impregnated with op'um. while tha wrapper, which waa warranted to be rice paper, waa proven to be the most wdlnary quality of white paper,] whitened with arsenio—the two poi j sons combined being present in suffi-j Blent quantities to create the habit oH □sing opium without his being swart] of it, and which craving cau only be] satisfied by an increased consumption of cigarettes.”