SMOKING DEGRADES THE TASTES.
By this time, you will be far along the road to ruin. You will begin to look upon your father and mother as slow, and will love the company of the wicked, and hate that of the good. Then will follow misery, woe, and eternal ruin.
BAD EFFECTS SHOWN IN TIME.
You know plenty of boys who smoke cigarettes, and you cannot see that they suffer any harm on that account. But, as in many other instances, the harm comes after a time; and often when too late to be cured. A great many boys die every year from cigarette smoking, and thousands upon thousands are stricken by disease from that cause alone.
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.
CIGARETTE PAPER.
The oil of tobacco is highly poisonous; but the oil of the paper used for cigarette wrappers is worse than that. It burns white, because of the acids and chemicals in it.