QUALITY OF CIGARETTE TOBACCO.
In 1883, about three quarters of a billion of cigarettes were smoked in this country, of which more than one half were made in the city of New York. The tobacco used is the worst that can be found anywhere. Saltpetre is mixed with it to prevent moulding. Physicians will tell you that saltpetre, when thus taken into the system, is very hurtful.
The Havana cigarette is made of fair tobacco, but is rolled in thick, vile paper and soaked with creosote, which is very hurtful. But those cigarettes which pretend to be made of Cuban tobacco are imitations that are as bad as they can be.