Something into the brick-work or the mortar, the wood-work or the nails, the walls or the chimneys, that would make them weak and tottering, instead of strong and steady?
It would he had enough if you should repair your house with poor materials; but surely it must be built in the first place with the best you can get.
You will soon learn that boys and girls are building their bodies, day after day, until at last they reach full size.
Afterward, they must be repaired as fast as they wear out.
It would be foolish to build any part in a way to make it weaker than need be.
Wise doctors have said that the boy who uses tobacco while he is growing, makes every part of his body less strong than it otherwise would be. Even his bones will not grow so well.
Boys who smoke can not become such large, fine-looking men as they would if they did not smoke.
Cigarettes are small, but they are very poisonous. Chewing tobacco is a worse and more filthy habit even than smoking. The frequent spitting it causes is disgusting to others and hurts the health of the chewer. Tobacco in any form is a great enemy to youth. It stunts the growth, hurts the mind, and cripples in every way the boy or girl who uses it.
Not that it does all this to every youth who smokes, but it is always true that no boy of seven to fourteen can begin to smoke or chew and have so fine a body and mind when he is twenty-one years old as he would have had if he had never used tobacco. If you want to be strong and well men and women, do not use tobacco in any form.