THE CIGARETTE HABIT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 4

THE CIGARETTE HABIT.

! : S UGGfiSTBD: SOLUTION; BY THE V,; . I ■ .; ..'■ : ■' "LANCET.". ■ Tho smoking of -cigarettes is increasing, and tho .rcasone why this form of indulgence', in tobacco is outstripping the use.of pipe or cigar! aro : interesting, '. states the "Lancet.'! , ' A roallyi good; cigar is expensive, and to, bo appreciated it must; be , smoked at leisure. However good the cigar may be, the.smokp is strong, heavy, and .lingering,, compared with, thiit of-'the cigarette,...The,-pipe, of course,, can bo taken up at any.time, but the use of tho pipe involves some preparation, and en-; tails also . a .larger,, armamentarium. The pipe smoker must carry with him, besides his pipe, his- tobacco in a ppucli. ' , ']"'' '" The worst of the,cigaretfa habit-is that the smoker consumes more tobacco in'that form than ho would,in.any other. Tlio cigar arid pipo. soon satisfy, the tobacco, craving; the -cigarette smokez , , is, rarely.; .warned, in time of. his excess.. The ; cigarette appears as a'mild form of smoking of which nio smoker never tiros, and cigarette .replaces.,cigarette with/, practically; little intermission throughout the' wholes day. Few, can deny, that .such a prac,-' tico is .very, injurious to the health, and the slaves ■ tq. it; find, it. hard to. break ' tho chain, which binds...them. .. The ready-made cigarette is largely, responsible for.the enormous growth of this servitude, and to those who arc con.scious of having acquired an injurious habit i of indulgence which .they honest! j,are ; anxious, to reduce, if not to abandon altogether, thorc is one piece of advice .which-is .seldom, known to fail; ■ • . •;•• •■.. ■-. • :■■,•• ;• ■: : Let tho invotcrato cigarette-smokor.:givo up.;.thc ready-made cigarette;- let him buy puroi.papor and good tobacco;, let him; make iiis cigarotto junt before ho smokes i it; and ho will find that ho will.smoke .consequently fewer cigarettes'and.lie all the better for it. I Such a- mothod, : if honcstlr adopted, .would '.niako an.end to:-tho "chain'',smoker, who, when ho has■ nearly -nnishod a. cigarette, ini-, 'inccliatoly proceeds to light anothor from the expiring" ember, and ends the day with an appalling consumption of 50 cigarettes, or more. . ;, : ~ ,;■ ; .-; : .. ■ ,-.'■. ■■ ; , ■ ■■:,. ; Just as bis.(Sir. Morley's) splendid stand against' Socialism some seven or eight years' hack did not wen hen but rather strengthened him, to tlio 'hnia'zenipnfc of' tho politicans who imagine that popularity with 1 the peoplo is to bo gained by fawning upon them, no 'now Mr. Slorloy's attitude in regard to the government of India lias gained Him, not : hostility,' but support among tho majority of Itadiaiils.—"Spectator;" The average Briton regards his daughters as encumbrances, to be disposed of nt tho 1 earliest'opportunity, and at somebody else's 'expense.— Madame." John Joni'S, 'a , , rjunrrymon, left hie home at Pnndcryn' recently ! to •'look for wArk at Swansea. Nothing was -heard from him, and ns inquiries-mado'-by his wife-from relatives in the Swansra Valley proved futile, a search party was organised.--Joneß,-was found on , .1 lo'ielr spur of the Brecknock Beacon. Ho.was partly undressed, and althoUßli.the flesh had been picked off Ms face nnd Ms eyes. Had boon on ten away, ho. was still alive, in dreadful aßonjV a'nd.'unnWe to spnak. . He died 'short.lv ■afterwardr;. ■ It .is Hioimlit probable 'that he'became "(lonwntM-'on tlm mountain, (o repel' the : crows lund rooks -which-atta'cked him