Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1891 — Death in the Cigar. [ARTICLE]

Death in the Cigar.

A celebrated European specialist for diseases of the throat, nose, and ear asserts that tuberculosis is making alarm ing progress among cigar smokers. He does not attribute this to the use of tobacoo, but to the manner in which cigars are manufactured. Rolling the tobacco leaf is a craft, that require* neither strength nor intelligence, consequently in this branch of the operation it is usual to find male and female operatives who ano we ifc and diseased, and who. In consequent)! of their infirmities, are economical employees. Most of them suffer trim scrofula or tuberculosis. They cough, and often rive the finishing touch to « cigar with their lips