THE DEADLY CIGARETTE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 90

THE DEADLY CIGARETTE.

L. F. Stevens gathers the testimony of various organisations that close their doors against cigarette users: —

1. Athletic Clubs. — " Cigarettes prohibited to all athletes in training for our comwetitive games (numerous schools and colleges). No boy can be a fine athlete — footballer, baseball, or basket-ball player, runner, jumper, or gymnast — who weakens his heart anil poisons his blood by oigaxette smoking. ' 2. Business Colleges. — " This is our experience in teaching more than 50,000 young people: Cigarettes bring about shattered nerves, mental weakness, stunted growth, and general physical and moral- degeneracy. We refuse' to receive users of tobacco in our institution." — EL 0. and S, A, Spencer, fijiencerian Business Pq)lq£%.

3. Union Pacific Railroad. — Similar order.

4. OmaJca Schools. — ''No two way** nhnut it. Either let -cigarettes alone or go without an education. The use of cigarettes impairs the faculties of the pupil, and sooner or later will ruin him.' — Superintendent S.

5. Swift and Co., packing house, Chicago, and other Chicago business houses, employing hundreds of boys, hare issued this announcement, cur similar ones: — " So impressed with the danger of cigarette using, aro we that we will not employ a cigarette

6. Marshall Field. — Similar announcement. 7. Life Insurance Companies (London). — " Cigarette user 3 are bad risks." 8. Sohigh Valley Railroad bars cigarette smokers.

9. United States Army Positions. — "Thousands o? young men rejected by medical examiners because they had tobacco heart, the result of cigarette smoking. In one examination for West Point ono-"fourth of the candidates were rejected. Cause: 'Tobacco heart' from cigarette smokin.g." 10. United States Naval Schools.— " Out of 412 boys examined by tine naval enlisting officer (Peoria, 111.), only 114 were accepted! Of the 298 rejections, the greater number were on account of weak hearts, and in the majority of cases this was caused by cigarette smoking." 11. Carson, Piru, and Scott, Chicago, bars cigarette smokers as employees. 1 12. Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad bars cigarette smokers. 13. Central Railroad of Georgia forbids cigarette smoking.