TOBACCO 
MYSTERIES 
EXPOSED 
ahdHABIT 
CONQUERED 
By Krauss BETA-PYRIDIL-ALPHA-N-METHYL-PYRROLIDINE 
(NICOTINE) 
TOBACCO 
MYSTERIES 
EXPOSED 
AND — 
HABIT 
CONQUERED 
.V 
DR. LOUIS L. KRAUSS 
I'• 
AUTHOR OF 
HUMANITY, FATHER AND SON, MOTHER 
AND DAUGHTER, THE SILENT WORKER, 
THY MOTHER, A THOUSAND TRUTHS. 
PUBLISHED BY 
THE BUREAU OF MORAL AND HYGIENIC EDUCATION 
1269 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK, N. Y. Copyright 1917 
By LOUIS L. KRAUSS 
New York City 
All rights reserved 
including that of translation into 
foreign languages. 
“He who shows men how to keep well will 
be the greatest benefactor to the race, while 
he who shows all how to get well is next.” Dr. LOUIS L. KRAUSS 
Lecturer, Author, Writer. President and Fouuder of the Bureau of Moral and Hygenic Education, Inc. of New York. INTRODUCTION 
The purpose of the writer of this book is to explain in the simplest 
words and manner all about tobacco, having wide experience in all 
branches of the tobacco industry. 
My first experience was when a mere boy, thirty years ago, I 
loved farm work and worked on a tobacco farm or plantation, doing 
chores, woodcutting, setting wood piles on fire, distributing ash and 
seed, watering, hoeing, weeding, transplanting, priming, topping, sucker- 
ing, stringing, tieing and baling. 
I was employed by a cigar manufacturer in Park Place, New 
York City. My duties made me thoroughly familiar with the various 
branches of the tobacco industry, first flavoring (blending) then sweat- 
ing, stripping, sorting, drying and distributing tobacco to the cigar maker. 
After a short time I left to take up with another firm in Burling Slip, 
New York City, where I worked as packer and sorter, also labeling 
and stamping cigar boxes. After one year, I secured employment with 
a large firm of cigar makers at the foot of East 52nd Street, New 
York City. There I was employed to run a new cigar making (bunch) 
machine which the firm was interested in. In this factory I worked in 
every branch of the cigar and cigarette line until the firm went out of 
business, some other firm took over the building and cigarettes were 
made there. When the Spanish-American war broke out in 1898 I 
enlisted in Company G. of the 9th N. Y. Vol., Inft., and served until 
the close of the War. I have worked as a retail salesman for the 
big tobacco corporation in three stores in New York City. 
From the time I was discharged from service in the Army I have 
devoted my time to writing, traveling and lecturing, having visited nearly 
all the principal cities, villages and towns in the United States and 
Canada, my topics being Tobacco, Cigarettes, Vice, White Slavery and 
Intemperance. I have lectured in colleges, schools, factories, health 
resorts, and held thousands of open air meetings, talked to cigarette, 
cigar and pipe smokers and chewers of tobacco, also to those who worked 
in the tobacco industry. I am indebted to many for the information thus 
gathered, and to the authors of the verses quoted, knowing that no objec- tions would be offered, they knowing that this book is another part of 
the ammunition in the great battle for a cleaner and better generation. 
I would express my sense of obligation, not only to those able writers 
on the subject from whom I have gathered much of my material, but 
also to various medical authorities—strangers as well as friends—to 
whose courtesy in response to inquiries I have been indebted in the 
performance of my work for my information. 
I am chiefly indebted to the following authors: 
Henry Ford, “The Case against the Little White Slaver.” 
M. Lander, “The Tobacco Problem.” 
Marx Mac Levy, “The Tobacco Habit Easily Conquered.” 
Azur Thurston, “Cigarettes and their Analysis.” 
Thomas S. Blair, M. D., “Public Hygiene.” 
Rudolph J. Bodmer, “The Book of Wonders.” 
Milton Whitney, “Chief of the Division of Soil, United States 
Department of Agriculture.” 
Henry P. Prescott, F. L. S., “Strong Drink and Tobacco Smoke.” 
Jacob Gutman, Phar. D., M. D. 
Gilbert Burnette, F. LL. 
William Marsden, M. D. 
H. H. Tidswell, M. D. 
Dr. L. L. Krauss CONTENTS 
Page 
Discovery, Name and Transplantation of the Curse 7- 9 
How Tobacco is Planted 9- 12 
Tobacco and Other Leaves 12- 14 
Nicotine Poisoning—U. S. Government Experiment 14- 17 
Mysterious Names—Poisons 17- 18 
Startling Facts About Tobacco 18- 21 
Snuff, Sniffers and Adulterations 21- 24 
Some Remarkable Figures About Tobacco 24- 29 
What the Big Men of the Country Say About Cigarettes 30- 40 
Law on Cigarettes 40- 42 
Cigarettes Develop Gunman 42 
Open Letter to Superintendents of Sunday Schools 43 
What a Noted Physician Writes 44- 45 
U. S. Marine Corps Recruiting Officers, Hugh, Daniel, David 
Starr Jordon, say 46 
Scientific Cigarette Facts 47- 48 
Result of Analysis of 26 Brands of Cigarettes 49 
Result of Analysis of 5 Brands of Cigars 50 
Result of Analysis of Chewing Tobacco 50 
Result of Analysis of Tobacco Leaves With Midribs Removed 
and Result of Analysis of Ribs 50 
Financial Loss to Smokers—The Cigarette Habit 51- 56 
His Satanic Majesty’s Fuel for Drinking Appetites 56- 57 
Ill-Advised and Enticing Advertisements 57- 58 
Result of Investigation of Principal of High School 58- 60 
Cornell University Athletic Director, Writes 60 
Suicide By Cigarettes 61 
Facts About the Human Body 61- 62 
A Costly Habit 63- 64 
Supplement A—Consequences of the Tobacco Habit 65- 66 
Supplement B—A Counterblast of Tobacco 66- 72 
Supplement C—Tobacco Battered Pipes Shattered 72- 73 
Supplement D—Historical Curiosities Concerning the Tobacco 
Habit 73-76 
Supplement E—The Use and Abuse of Tobacco 76- 80 
Supplement F—Table of Comparison Between Smokers and 
Non-Smokers in Birthrates 80- 82 
Les Darcy, Australian Heavyweight Champion, says 82- 83 
Old King Cigarette, King Nicotine—Decent Burial 83- 84 
Two Women Both Blind 84 
The Prize Method of Curing the Effects of Excessive Smoking 85 
The Habit Conquered 86 
The Value of Good Health 87- 92 
Bibliography 93-128 TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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DISCOVERY, NAME AND TRANSPLANTATION 
OF THE CURSE 
“Tobago,” was the name of a “Y” shaped Indian pipe that usually 
consisted of a hollow forked reed, the two prongs of which were fitted 
into the nostrills, the smoke being drawn from tobacco placed in the 
end of the stem, that is where the word t-o-b-a-c-c-o is derived. 
Tobago also was the name of an island and it was first believed 
that that is where we got the name of tobacco. 
It was Christopher Columbus who gave it the name, owing to its 
resemblance of the shape of the Indian pipe. 
Tobacco is now found growing in almost all inhabited countries, 
but it is a native of the Americas and the adjacent islands. So Columbus 
besides discovering America was the real discoverer of tobacco in 1492, 
when he found the native Indians using a weed, upon his first visit to 
the New World. 
Extensive investigations have established that tobacco smoking was 
first a religious rite, which gradually became a social habit among the 
natives. Columbus and his successors some years afterward carried the 
plant back to Spain and a Spanish Monk also indentified the weed 
in a province of San Domingo and called it Tobacco. Sir Walter 
Raleigh took the weed to England and Jean Nicot introduced it to the 
French, and from thence the name Nicotine was introduced. 
Adventurous traders brought some seed to Turkey and other places, 
when some Spanish Argosies traveled with seeds westward from Mexico 
to the Philippine Islands; and again to China and Japan and now 
four centuries after its discovery tobacco is being cultivated in nearly 
every country and being used by every race of men. 
Milton Whitney in his bulletin of the Division of Soils issued by 
the United States Department of Agriculture, says: Tobacco while a 
native of the Americas can be grown in nearly all parts of the globe, 
even where wheat and corn cannot economically grow. The plant 
readily adapts itself to a great range of climatic conditions, will grow 
on nearly all kinds of soil and has a comparatively short season of 
growth. But while it can be so universally grown, the flavor and 
quality of the leaf are greatly influenced by conditions of climate and 
soil. The industry has been very highly specialized and there is only 
one demand for tobacco possessing certain qualities adapted to certain 
specific purposes. It is a curious and interesting fact that tobacco 8 
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suitable for our domestic cigars is raised in Sumatra, Cuba and Florida, 
and then passing over our middle tobacco states the cigar type is found 
again in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Connecticut. 
It is surprising to find little difference in the metrological record for 
these several places during the crop season. There does not seem to 
be sufficient difference to explain the different classes of tobacco and 
yet this difference is probably founded upon metrological conditions. 
The plant is far more sensitive to these metrological conditions than are 
our instruments. Even in such a famous tobacco region as Cuba, 
tobacco of good quality cannot be grown in the immediate vicinity of 
the ocean or in certain parts of the island that would otherwise be 
considered good tobacco lands. This has been experienced also in 
Sumatra and in our own country, but the influences are too subtle to 
be detected by our metrological instruments. Under good climate 
conditions, the class and type of tobacco depends upon the character 
of the soil, especially on the physical character of the soil upon which 
it is grown, while the grade is dependant largely upon the cultivation 
and curing of the crop. Different types of tobacco are grown on 
widely different soils all the way from coarse sandy lands of the Pine 
Barrens, to the heavy clay limestone corn and wheat lands. 
The best soil for one kind of tobacco, therefore may be almost 
worthless for the staple agricultural crops, while the best for another 
type of tobacco may be the richest and most productive soil of any 
that we have. 
Havana tobacco, which means all tobacco grown on the island 
of Cuba, possesses peculiar qualities which make it the finest tobacco 
in the world for cigar purposes. The island produces from 350,000 
to 500,000 bales annually of which 1 50,000 to 250,000 bales come 
to the United States for use in American Cigar factories. The best 
quality of the Cuban tobacco comes largely from the Vuelta Abajo 
section although some very choice tobaccos are raised also in the 
Partidos section. 
Remedios tobaccos are more heavily bodied than others and are 
used almost exclusively for blending with other tobacco. While there are 
innumerable sub-classifications, such as Semi-Vueltas, Remates, Tum- 
badero, etc., the three general divisions named above, Vuelta Abajo, 
Partidos, and Remedios, embrace the entire island. If a fourth general 
classification were to be added it would be Semi-Vueltas. 
The Vuelta Abajo is grown in the Province of Pinar del Rio, 
located at the western end of the island. It is raised practically through- 
out the entire Province. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Semi-Vueltas are also grown in Pinar del Rio, but the trade draws 
a line between them and the genuine Vueltas. Partidos tobacco which 
is grown principally in the Province of Havana differs from the Vuelta 
Abajo in that it is of a lighter quality. 
The Partidos country is famous for its production of fine light, 
glossy wrappers. Tobacco from the foregoing sections is used practi- 
cally in the manufacture of clear Havana cigars. Some of the heavier 
Vueltas, however, are also used for seed and Havana cigar purposes. 
Remedios, otherwise known as Vuelta-Arriba, is grown in the 
Province of Santa Clara, located in the centre of the island. 
This tobacco is taken almost entirely by the United States and 
Europe and is used for filler purposes, principally in seed Havana and 
cigars. Its general characteristics are a high flavor and rather heavy 
body, which make it especially suitable for blending with our domestic 
tobaccos. 
Havana tobacco is packed and marketed in bales. 
How Tobacco Is Planted 
Low, rich, hardwood lands are first selected, which must be pre- 
pared by cutting down the trees by experienced lumbermen (lumber- 
jacks). The trees are cut up and piled in cords and left to dry, and about 
the latter part of January or early in February these cords are stacked 
around skid-poles, the same shape as cones and then ignited, thus clear- 
ing the ground by the burning process, then the wood coals are moved 
from place to place until the ground is cleared of grass, brush, and 
insects are exterminated. The ground is then plowed up and the 
ashes plowed under, thus making a perfect seed bed. Extra dry ashes 
is then mixed with seed, a teaspoonful of seed to a gallon of ashes, 
the mixture is then sowed over a square rod of land, which is cultivated 
to supply plants enough for one acre. 
After this operation the ground is covered with cheese cloth as a 
protection after which they are watered, until they obtain the height 
of about four inches when they are carefully weeded, they are then 
transplanted early in April. Then the real fertilizing of the soil takes 
place, cow manure is distributed, ten to twenty double loads to the acre, 
and to this natural fertilizer is added two hundred and fifty pounds of 
carbonate of potash and three hundred pounds of bright cotton seed 
meal is sprinkled and plowed under at a cost of about $ 120 per acre 
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The land is thereupon laid out into ridges or furrows four feet 
apart each way and then flattened so as to level the bed for the small 
plant, then at a mark at eighteen inch intervals, a small hole is made 
into which is poured about a quart of water. It is in this hole the 
young plant is set and allowed to begin its full growth. 
Planting usually ends about the early part of June, and the plants 
are carefully watched, they should be howed, cultivated and watered 
at least once a week to be good. Care must be exercised to see that 
butter worms do not infest the plants, because there is a small green 
moth that lays its eggs upon the bud which turn into worms in two 
days. A mixture of insecticide and cornmeal is sprayed upon the plant 
at intervals to protect it until the bud of the plant is fully grown, then 
the chief danger is past. 
About the time the tobacco plant is some three feet high many 
of the first leaves of the plant are plucked and discarded. When the 
crop advances to this stage of growth there comes another enemy to be 
looked after, known to the planter as the horn-worm. 
The horn-worm is a mouse-colored moth of medium size. They 
come in by the thousands about sun-down and swarm over the tobacco 
field depositing their green egg about the size of a pinhead upon the 
under side of the plant leaf. Unless carefully watched these insects 
will destroy this whole leaf of tobacco and leave nothing but the stub 
or stems and stalk. Special picking or insecticides are used to over- 
come this danger. 
In about two or three months from the time of setting the plants 
for growth, the first leaves to ripen are the lower ones which are picked 
by the grower or primer, who detaches each leaf and carefully inspects 
it to see that no nests of insects are attached so as not to carry insects 
to the barn. Now the plants begin to bud at the top which is a sign 
that the topper shall begin by breaking off the bud and small leaves 
at the top so as to confine the development of the plant to the leaves 
on the bottom. Within about three weeks the priming of the tobacco is 
done, and all the marketable leaves upon the top of the plant are 
harvested. Then all the small branches that have a tendency to grow 
upon the main stalk are carefully removed, this is called suckering. 
The stringers are next in line to do their part, which is to run a needle 
and a strong twine through the stem keeping each leaf of tobacco about 
one inch apart, twenty-five or thirty to a string, according to the width 
of the poles set up. This is done to prevent the leaves touching each 
other so as not to impair the cure of the leaf. There are several of AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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the strings of leaves put up one above the other and every available 
inch of space is used by the stringers, so this is the first cure the tobacco 
leaf undergoes, it is called the barn cure. At this stage of the proceed- 
ings the grower must also be very careful about weather conditions 
and changes, to see that proper ventilation is maintained in order to 
avoid stem-rot. 
The next process is tieing the leaves into hands of tobacco with 
a string, and packing for delivery to the fermenting house for the bulk 
sweat. This is done by making piles of equal height and covered with 
cloths or blankets which are quite frequently turned so that the leaves 
shall cure or sweat evenly, and to keep as light a color as possible. 
The longer the sweat the darker the leaves. When this process is 
completed the blankets are removed, the leaves or hands are placed upon 
sorting tables, sorted into sizes, lengths and colors and afterwards sent 
to the packers who pack the grades in bales or boxes, marking each 
bale or box with the growers mark and is then weighed and stored 
awaiting shipment to the factory where it is handled many times before 
it is made up into cigars, cheroots, cigarettes, plugs, fine cut chewing 
and smoking tobacco. 
If you have travelled through regions where tobacco is grown you 
remember seeing the little tents which are erected over the tobacco 
plants and which give the plantation the appearance of miniature mili- 
tary encampments. The purpose of these tents is to give the plants the 
shade necessary to help protect them from the mosaic disease. 
It is the most dread of the ailments to which tobacco is subject, 
it either destroys the plants before they reach maturity or seriously dam- 
ages them for smoking purposes. The bad taste that makes some cigars 
so unpleasant is often due to the fact that they were made from tobacco 
which had been suffering from the mosaic disease. 
It has been discovered that the color of these tents has a very 
curious effect upon the progress of the mosaic disease. Plants suffering 
from the disease are greatly benefitted by being kept under blue tents. 
When kept under red tents the severity of the disease is consider- 
ably lessened and when kept under tents whose neutral shades only 
suffuse the sun’s rays its progress is checked somewhat. 
To test the effects of colored light the plants were enclosed in cloth 
hoods of the desired color, the apparently healthy leaves remaining 
uncovered and exposed to normal daylight. After a month the hoods 
were removed and the plants carefully examined for visible symptoms 
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Although the plants kept in blue light showed no symptoms of the 
disease for at least two weeks after the removal of the hoods, it cannot 
be said that they were completely cured. The juice of their leaves 
still remained highly infectious, and when healthy plants were inoculated 
with it they promptly developed the disease. 
Tobacco and Other Leaves 
If the reader has mastered the details of the foregoing chapter, he 
will find what follows of some use, should he care to analyze for him- 
self the tobacco which he smokes or crews or the snuff which he uses. 
Some of the tobacco leaves, imported into the United States arrives 
packed in bales, cases and large hogsheads in which, after packing 
they are submitted to an enormous pressure. They rarely suffer any 
injury in this process, and for purposes of microscopic analysis are after 
steeping in water, nearly as useful as if green and freshly packed. 
Comparing the margins of any tobacco leaves with those of other plants 
we shall find them entire—that is, even and unbroken unlike the borders 
of the leaves cut into toothed notches, or rounded segments, or into 
lorger segments like the dandelion leaf. 
American, German, Dutch and most tobacco leaves of commerce 
are without stalks being attached to the stem of the plant by the midrib, 
or large central vein; and this is a very marked character which 
they possess. 
Therefore, if we find in our cigar a portion of a leaf, either pos- 
sessing a stalk or a divided margin, we may safely conclude that we 
had alighted upon an adulteration. 
Moreover the midrib of tobacco in section presents a horse-shoe 
form in which the woody or fibrous tissue lies as a central mass, sur- 
rounded by a cellular tissue. In the latter character it closely resem- 
bles foxglove, but the last differs from it in the woody tissue being 
curved upwards at the ends, and margin of the section, more particu- 
larly on its upper surface, having strong decided curves. 
In all the leaves with which tobacco is or is likely to be adulterated, 
the woody tissues of their midribs or stalks lie in separate detached 
bundles as will be readily seen on comparison. 
The forms of the leaves are dock, burdock» chicory, foxglove, and 
comfrey with the transverse vertical sections of their midribs, are given 
because of the peculiar characters of the leaves, will be evident on 
inspection; those of the sections of the midribs consisting of differences AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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in the forms of their outlines, whether plain, more or less grooved or 
lobed, and the general form of distribution of the woody tissues of each 
amongst the cellular tissue. 
Compare, for instance, the forms of the leaves of burdock and 
dock or either of these again with comirey and all three with tobacco 
leaf. Observe the forms of their bases, points and margins, and char- 
acteristic distinctions will be immediately apparent. 
Take a portion of the midrib of each leaf, and cut a very thin 
slice of it at a right angle to its length and compare them with each 
other under microscope with an object glass of low power. The dif- 
ference of these will be seen in the general forms of their outlines 
whether plain or grooved, or lobed, and the shape and distribution of 
the woody amongst the cellular tissues. Notice more carefully the 
general outlines and upper surfaces of the midrib section of dock and 
burdock and the marked characters which distinguished them from 
tobacco or comfrey. Those of chicory and foxglove are as decidedly 
marked. Carrying our analysis still further, by adding greater power 
to the microscope, our leaves furnish us with valuable and infallible 
evidence in the minute hairs with which their surfaces are clothed, and 
which form their delicacy and pliability, eluding the grinding action of 
the snuff-mill. 
These hairs are attached to and grow on the skins of the upper and 
under surfaces of leaves, their midribs and veins, lying scattered in 
greater or less abundance amongst the stomates or breathing pores of 
these plants. 
The tobacco leaf is furnished with two forms of hairs, long and 
short. The former are composed of three or four elongated cells, joined 
end to end, the whole surmounted by a cluster of minute cells forming 
a gland which contains a rich brorvn coloring matter. These are called 
grandular hairs, and they have a pair, sometimes more cells forming 
a compound base. The short hairs are unicellular, with a cluster of 
cells at one end containing coloring matter. I call these hairs club- 
shaped; their bases are simple. 
The leaves of the dock are furnished with peculiar club-shaped 
unicellular hairs, free from coloring matter but having their surfaces 
marked with a peculiar wavy line (striated) formed by wrinkling as 
it were of their cell walls. This is a very marked feature, equally so 
is the presence on the skin of the blade, or thin portion of the leaf, of 
numerous circular cavities, composed of clusters of cells built into the 
substance of the leaf forming minute chambers containing crystals of 14 
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oxalate of lime (raphides). The hairs described are found mostly on 
the midribs and veins of leaves, and glands on the leaf-blades. 
Leaves of the burdock plant are covered on their under surface with 
a dense, greenish-white, wooly substance. When a minute portion of 
the skin to which this attached is separated from the leaf, this wooliness 
is resolved by the microscope into a mass of very beautiful transparent 
hairs, each composed of a string or bead, of square-shaped cells, jointed 
together; these gradually diminish in size towards the end of the hair, 
which terminates in a slender, transparent filament of very great length. 
The bases of these hairs are compound. 
The leaves of the chicory) plant have a peculiar interest in connec- 
tion with the subject of tobacco adulteration. Some years ago tons 
of these leaves steeped in tar oil were seized in Europe by the revenue 
officers on the premises of a cigar manufacturer, by whom they had been 
freely used as “filler” for Havanas and so good was the sophistica- 
tion, that many practical men were actually deceived. When the 
leaves were unrolled their margins at once told the tale, and when their 
skins were stripped and examined under the microscope they told another, 
for attached to them were discovered an abundance of minute hairs as 
unlike those of the tobacco leaf as could be well imagined for about 
a third of its length, each hair composed of a number of oblong cells, laid 
side to side, and end to end; these gradually lessen in number until 
they form a row of single cells joined together, the hair being furnished 
by a single cell curiously curved. A cluster of cells form a compound 
base to each hair. Duboisia Hopwoodii another nicotine bearing plant 
is found in the interior of Australia. This is all given so that my readers 
may understand why adulterations of tobacco are so often reported. 
Nicotine Poisoning—U. S. Government Experiment 
Nioctie is a nerve-soother. It is a habit forming drug, and when 
used to excess acts as a poison. Nicotine is an alkaloid peculiar to the 
tobacco plant. It is what makes tobacco leaves different from other 
leaves. In a strong cigar there is three per cent, of nicotine; in a mild 
cigar less than two per cent; in a cigarette from one-half in ten to almost 
four per cent, as is hereafter given in the tables of analysis. It is 
nicotine that gives tobacco its stimulating effect. 
The United States Government spent considerable time breeding 
new varieties of tobacco containing a little nicotine, yet enough to 
satisfy the smoker. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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You have often seen a little boy blow a puff of cigarette smoke 
through a handkerchief, which he thereupon holds up, telling his admir- 
ing friends that the yellow stain is “Nicotine”. But he is mistaken. 
The ingredients that stain the handkerchief (all but a little portion) 
are not nicotine, but a depoist of tarn; oils from the burning of the 
tobacco. Many elders have been deceived as to just what this 
stain was. 
This experiment attacks a problem which for three years has 
occupied the Government’s attention. It has an important bearing upon 
the tobacco-growing everywhere; upon the trade in cigars, cigarettes 
and pipe tobaccos; now and then one meets a man who wants a strong 
cigar. But the general tendency is to a demand for mild tobaccos. 
(Mild tobacco contains a very small percentage of nicotine.) Hence 
certain recent experiments conducted by the Government Plant Bureau 
at Landsville, Pa., which have had for their object the breeding of new 
tobacco varieties “low in nicotine”. It is a mere business of selection 
through a series of seasons, the seeds used for planting being taken in 
every instance from plants whose leaves have proved on chemical analysis 
to contain the smallest percentage of alkaloids. Of course, for the 
smoker’s sake this might be carried too far, the experts might obtain 
varieties that contain almost no nicotine, for which they would hardly 
find a market. We all know it is nicotine that makes tobacco what it is. 
Dr. W. W. Garner, in charge of the experiments at Landsville, 
Pa., beginning with tobacco leaves that had three and one-half per 
cent, of nicotine has reduced the percentage by his method to one and 
one-third per cent. He has, according to his report, obtained tobacco 
with not more than one-half of one per cent, of nicotine; but this is 
too little to satisfy the average smoker. 
For the first time, knowledge on this subject is reduced to exact 
terms. But it should be clearly understood that the quality of a tobacco 
has nothing to do with the percentage of nicotine. A poor tobacco may 
have a high percentage of nicotine; a superior tobacco may have a low 
percentage; or it.may be vice versa. Nicotine is what chemists call 
an “alkaloid,” an organic compound peculiar to the tobacco plant. Too 
much nicotine may act as a poison. When a person is not accustomed 
to it, the drug, for it is properly to be regarded as such—may produce 
disastrous effects. Hence the sufferings of the small boy from his first 
experiment with tobacco. Even the experienced smoker may suffer, if 
after a long period of abstention, he indulges in a couple of fairly strong 
cigars. Nicotine is a powerful heart depresser, unless one is fortified 
against it by habit; the sufferer feels as if death actually was reaching 16 
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for him. He turns pale; a frightful faintness overcomes him; a cold 
sweat breaks out all over him. Excessive use of nicotine may irritate the 
nerves—may even engender chronic nerveous troubles. It may interfere 
with the action of the heart. Too much nicotine (especially in the case 
of a cigarette smoker who inhales) may seriously affect the sight. 
Nicotine, when chemically separated from the tobacco leaf is a color- 
less liquid, indistinguishable, so far as appearance goes, from water. 
It is found in only one plant besides tobacco—a large shrub known 
to botanists as Duboisia Hoprvoodii, that is native to the interior to 
Australia. The black tribes of that Island continent have used it for 
centuries. 
If any kind of vegetable matter be burned, the chief products of 
the combustion are water-vapor and carbonic acid gas. Other products 
are ammonia and tarry oils, which latter are themselves very complex 
compounds. Among the products of tobacco burning, however, is one 
that is peculiar to tobacco, and this is nicotine. 
The small amount of nicotine in cigar or cigarette being color- 
less is invisible to the naked eye. But it is easy to understand that the 
lungs of a cigarette smoker who inhales must in the course of time, 
become badly clogged with these waste products of combustion, and 
incidentaly much nicotine is taken into the system. Being deposited in 
the lun%-cells through which the blood-stream continually pours the 
alkaloid is carried to all parts of the body, and the result is chronic 
poisoning. Nicotine is what gives to tobacco its stimulating effect. It 
is accompained, in the leaf and in the cigar or cigarette by other related 
substances, in relatively minute quantities one of which is called 
“pyridin,” which is a posion pure and simple. Pyridin obtained from 
coal-tar is used to “denature” alcohol, it has a very unpleasant smell 
and can be detected after one has smoked and inhaled a cigarette. 
Nicotine is the “habit former” in tobacco, it is indeed a typical habit- 
forming drug—a species of “dope,” though reasonably mild in its 
physicologic effects. The difficulty of giving up the tobacco habit, 
when once acquired, is well known. Tobacco that has not been prop- 
erly cured is rich in tarrv oils and added products hereafter described 
that bite the tongue. The smoke of such tobacco is pungent and 
irritates the throat. 
I refer to London Lancet, April and August, 1912: 
The Toxic Factor in Tobacco— 
“Munch med. Wochenschrift,” 1908, Dr. K. B. Lehman. 
“Untersuchengen liber das Tabakrauchen. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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“Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, including Antidotal 
and, Antagonistic Treatment of Poison,” by Samuel C. L. Potter, 
A. M., M. D., M. R. C. P., etc., Philadelphia, 1913, twelfth edition. 
“The Aristocracy of Health,” by M. F. Henderson, Harpers’s, 
N. Y., 1914. 
“Commercial Organic Analysis,” by Allen’s Vol. VI, Philadelphia, 
1914, fourth edition. 
A. Trillat says: 
Burnt tobacco from various sources in the form of cigars cigar- 
ettes, in clay and wooden pipes and the formaldehyde in products of 
combustion was estimated as “tetramethyldiaminodiphenylmethane.” 
The quantity of formaldehyde formed varying little with the 
origion of the tobacco yielded 0.05 to 0.01 per cent of the weight 
of the substance burnt. Formaldehyde does not exist in free state in 
products of combustion but combines with nitrogenous fumes (such as 
nicotine) as present in the tobacco smoke to form compounds which 
possesses none of the deleterious properties of the two constituents. 
A. Pinner says: 
By interaction of nitrosohexahydronicotine and phenylsulphonic chlo- 
ride phenylsulphonehexahydronicotine is formed. 
These poisons have been isolated by scientific analysis are indentified 
as follows: 
Mysterious Names—Poisons 
Acetic acid 
Acid tartrate 
Acrolein 
Advenaline 
Alcohol 
Aldehydes 
Allatoin 
Ammonia 
Arsenic 
Atropine 
Benzoylnicotine 
Betaine 
Cadmium chloride 
Caffetannic acid 
Calerian 
Calsium 
Camphoric acid 
Cannabis indica 
Carbolic acid 
Carbon dioxide 
Carbon monoxide 
Cochineal 
Collidine 
Creosote 
Cyanide 
Endermol 
Endomentol 
Formaldehyde 
Gyanogen 
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Hydrogen sulphide 
Hydrochloride 
Hydrocyanic acid 
Irridine 
Lobelia 
Lutadine 
Molybdenium 
Nicotine camphor ate 
Nicotine curare 
N itrosohexahydronicotine 
Paroline 
Pentachloride 
Peroxydase 
Phosphomolybdiic acid 
Phenylsulphonehexahydronicotince 
Picoline 
Pilocarpine 
Prussic acid 
Pyridin 
Rubidine 
Silica 
Silicolungstate 
Solanine 
Sulphide gases 
Trigonophylla 
Trigonellin 
T etramethyldiaminodiphenylme- 
thane 
All are associated with the smoking habit. Some of the various 
articles used in flavoring tobacco are: Sugar, honey, orange peel, 
lemon peel, mace, cloves, spices of all kinds, vanilla, licorice, tonka- 
bean, opiates, laudanum, Spanish wine, Santa Cruz rum, liquor of all 
sorts, peat, seaweed, tincture opium and copperas. 
The tobacco plant is a great exhauster no matter where it is raised, 
it is all the same. It is a huge glutton, which, consuming all about it, 
like Homer’s glutton of old, cries; "More! Give me more!" Tobacco 
exhausts the land beyond all other crops. A gum issues from green 
tobacco that covers everything it comes in contact with. It is a narcotic 
plant which no brute will eat, affords no mutriment, which every stomach 
loathes till cruelly drugged into submission, it stupifies the brain, shatters 
the nerves, destroys the coats of the stomach, creates an insatiable thirst 
for stimulants, and finally prepares the human system for fatal disease. 
The sole advantage is that an individual may grow rich from rais- 
ing, or selling it, but what one man gains is obtained at the cost of his 
son and his son’s son. It is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness. 
Startling Facts About Tobacco 
It is upon the effects of tobacco-habit on body and mind that this 
whole question hinges and these effects must be determined by the 
opinions of medical men, scientific men, teachers and men of experi- 
ence founded on experiments and observations, with such facts as cor- 
robrate them. 
I have therefore undertaken to treat this point fairly and to sum- 
mon to my aid many prominent eye-witnesses as to the many mental 
and body diseases attributed to the account of “Mr. Nicotine.” AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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A chemical examination of a tobacco leaf shows its surface clotted 
with minute glands, which contain an oil, the proportion of this oil 
being seven per cent of the whole weight of the leaf. This oil is 
nicotine, one of the subtlest of poisons that determines the strength of 
tobacco. Physicians have studied its effect and thus sum them up. 
“Nicotine primarily lowers circulation, quickens the respiration, and 
excites the muscular system; but its ultimate effect is general exhaus- 
tion, as administered in even the minutest doses, the results are alarming 
and in large quantities will occasion a man’s death in from two to 
five minutes.” 
“The nicotine in one cigar if extracted and administered in a pure 
state, would suffice to kill two men.” 
The Indians used to poison their arrows by dipping them into 
nicotine, convulsions and often death being the result of these arrow 
wounds. 
A pin drop of pure nicotine applied to the tongue of a mouse, 
cat, dog, squirrel or rabbit will cause instant death. 
A frog, turtle or large fish placed in an aguarium and a drop 
of nicotine floating on the surface of the water, or a stream of tobacco 
smoke blown through a putty blower into the water caused instant death. 
Breathing the poisoned air of oil of nicotine will cause severe head- 
ache and convulsions. It is this atmosphere which we find everywhere, 
and from which there seems to be no escape. Even with all the signs 
—No smoking—Smoking positively forbidden—Nie roofyen—Nicht 
rauchen—Ne fumez pas ici—II est defendu de fumer—Hier xoird 
nicht geraucht. 
Put a tobacco victim into a hot bath, let him remain there till 
a free persperation takes place; then drop a fly into the water and instant 
death ensues. 
Hold white -paper over tobacco smoke, and when the cigar is 
consumed, scrape the condensed smoke from the paper and put a small 
amount on the tongue of a cat; it will die of paralysis. 
Among animals it is asserted that none can use the weed except 
the loathsome tobacco worm and the rock goat of Africa, the smell 
of the latter is so offensive that every other animal instinctively shuns it. 
The daughter of a tobacconist from simply sleeping in a room where 
a large quantity of tobacco had been rasped, died soon after in fright- 
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An old pipe its father had used was given to a child to blow soap 
bubbles with. The child was taken sick and died in four days. The 
doctor said it was due to nicotine poison sucked in while blowing soap 
bubbles. 
A child picked up a quid that had been thrown on the floor by 
her father, and taking it for a plum put it in her mouth, dying of the 
poison the same day. 
Bocarme, of Belgium, was murdered in two and one-half minutes 
by a little drop of nicotine. 
A very moderate quantity introduced into the system, or even 
applying the moistened leaves over the stomach, has suddenly ex- 
tinguished life. 
“So suddenly does tobacco poison the blood that “leeches” are 
instantly killed by the blood of smokers; so suddenly that they drop 
off dead immediately when they are applied.” 
It is pronounced perilous for a delicate person to sleep in a room 
with a habitual smoker. 
Medical journals report the poisoning of babes sharing the bed of 
a tobacco using father, and even from being in the room where he 
smoked; and infant deaths have occured from no other cause. 
Many an infant has been killed outright in its cradle by tobacco 
smoke with which a thoughtless father filled an unventilated room. 
Much of the invalidism and also the positive ill-health of women is 
due to the poisoned atmosphere created around them by the smoking 
members of the household. 
Dr. Robert Abbe in addressing the Practitioners Society of New 
York at a meeting said, “We all take our smoking very seriously, as 
if it were a necessity.” On the contrary, it is a luxury, and an indul- 
gence; a luxury which many smoking men can ill afford (for some 
it would represent an annual premium on a good life insurance) ; an 
indulgence that is never health-giving and often baneful.” 
Dr. Abbe’s indictment against tobacco laid special stress on the 
way smoking causes cancer of the mouth and nose. He said out of 
one hundred cases of cancer of the mouth and throat treated by him 
in fifteen months, ninety of the patients were inveterate users of tobacco. 
In six weeks he had been consulted by ten patients with grave cancer 
of the throat or tongue, and every one of these was a heavy smoker. 
What he inveighs against is a constant smoking of strong tobacco, for 
tobacco smoke is an irritant and it is this constant irritation of the 
mouth that brings on cancer. He says it is a habit very easily sur- AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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rendered in middle or late life, but not nearly so easy to give up in the 
boy cigarette fiends. In their case it is necessary to take them in groups, 
that they many have the psychological effect of companionship. 
Quoting Dr. James Ewing, of Cornell University, discussing cancer 
and its treatment before the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, declared radium was being over-estimated in the treatment 
of the disease and that cancer was curable if treatment was begun early 
enough. Another speaker said that smokers were especially liable to this 
infection. 
“Although radium has produced very important palliative results in 
advanced cases of cancer, and has even, in a considerable number of 
cases, apparently caused a complete disappearance of the disease,” said 
Dr. Ewing, “yet it cannot be relied upon to effect a permanent cure in 
the late stages of inoperable tumors, and therefore the importance of early 
diagnosis of cancer is again emphasized. For inoperable cases the value 
of radium, although great, is perhaps already over-estimated.” 
Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood, of Johns Hopkins University, speaking 
from the surgeon’s point of view, made it clear that cancer in its early 
stages is easily cured. 
“The disease,” he said, “usually springs from a preexisting lesion 
allowed to go unattended. In external cancer the warning is visible or 
can be felt. Unfortunately, pain is rarely present. A mole or a wart, 
a small area covered with a scab, a small lump or nodule beneath the 
skin, an unhealed wound, all of these may indicate potential cancer. 
“No man ever had a cancer on the lip or tongue without experi- 
encing some warning. The defect may be a burn from continued smok- 
ing or an irritation from ragged teeth. The probabilities of a cure are 
excellent when men heed such signals. Tobacco users are more subject 
to cancer than those who do not use it. The only miracle we have to 
perform is to educate a million persons where we now educate one.” 
A Government report shows that during eight months there were 
65,000,000 cigars imported to this country from the Philippine Isl- 
ands. These cigars were made mostly by women and children work- 
ing long hours for a mere pittance. 
Snuff, Sniffers and Adulterations 
Snuff whether moist or high dried, should consist of nothing but 
tobacco leaves (with or without midribs) in a fairly divided state, being 
reduced to a powder after undergoing the process of fermentation, and 
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cereals, pea-meal, bran sawdust of various woods, malt, rootlets, fustic 
oxides of iron and lead and ground glass have formed at various times 
favorite adulterations with unprincipled manufacturers and tobacconists. 
The acorn-cups of a large species of oak, Valonia, growing on the 
shores of the Mediterranean, have been extensively used in the adultera- 
tion of high dried snuff. 
In a town of eight thousand souls in one of our Southern tobacco 
producing states, sixty-five thousand dollars worth of snuffs was sold 
annually. 
In any Southern State where the negro population comprises half 
of the residents, the snuff which is sold amounts annually to more than 
the cost of all farming implements of every kind, including cotton-gins, 
cotton-presses, steam engines for farm use and all sorts of mechanical 
tools. 
In the old snuff-taking days a senatorial snuff box was kept on the 
stand of the Vice-President for the use of our legislators. 
Chalmers once said, “Give me your pinches of snuff and I will 
support the church; give me your tobacco, cigars and snuff and I will 
support the whole Southern church and do it handsomely.” 
A beautiful illustration of this law of charity is the case of a 
philanthropist who was a snuff taker. When asked by a brandy-drinker, 
with whom he had been expostulating on his habit, whether he thought 
tobacco did him any good, he explained that he took snuff by the pre- 
scription of his physican for feeble eyes. “Well, sir,” responded the 
gentleman, “your case is exactly like mine, I have a feeble stomach and 
have been compelled to take an occasional drop of spirits for its relief 
and restorative.” “Is it possible,” he asked himself, “that my taking 
snuff should serve as a pretext for drunkards to ruin both body and 
soul?” and the good man instantly abandoned the habit. 
In 1624 Pope Urban VIII issued a bill excommunicating all who 
took snuff in church, while Queen Elizabeth authorized the beadles to 
confiscate the snuff boxes to their own use. In 1690 Pope Innocent 
renewed the bill of excommunication. 
Frederick the Great at the Coronation of his mother, Queen of 
Prussia, observing that she watched her opportunity to take a pinch 
of snuff, sent a gentleman to remind her of what was due her high 
position. 
Queen Elizabeth of England published an edict aganist its use, 
as a demoralizing factor, tending to reduce her subjects to the condition 
of those of savage habits they imitated. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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In Africa the Zulus make snuff of tobacco, dry aloes, and ashes, 
grinding it very fine. It is exceedingly pungent, causing tears to flow 
profusely down their cheeks, while they wipe off the tears with a snuff- 
spoon made of bone or horn; this being their handkerchief. Old and 
young of both sexes carry snuff-boxes made of small calabashes tied to 
a girdle around the waist, sometimes diminutive reeds full of snuff are 
inserted in holes in their ears. When they meet after the usual saluta- 
tion; “I see you friend”—the snuff is passed round, each taking a good 
pinch. It is a nasty habit, their nostrils after the operation being covered 
with filth. 
A peculiar habit among the lower bred South Americans and Mexi- 
cans, is first to fill the nostrils with snuff, which is prevented from 
falling out by stuffing shag tobacco after it (plugging) then putting 
in each cheek a coil of pigtail tobacco (quidding) then lighting a cigar 
and smoking. A three in one way of becoming thin, nervous, and sub- 
jecting the body to a living death. 
Can any picture be more revolting than that of the miserable snuff 
dipping woman of to-day. Their life is not life—hardly existence— 
but one continuous stupor—faculties, feelings, conscience, everything 
dead except the single craving sense for snuff-snuff—more snuff. 
But this dipping is not confined to the poor whites. In other classes, 
circles of young ladies and married ladies meet expressly to practice 
it. Each snuff dipper carries a bottle or box and also a swab, by 
which she conveys the filthy snuff to her mouth, afterwards perhaps pass- 
ing it to her neighbor. 
The ladies prepare the swab by taking a little stick of green wood 
about one-eighth of an inch in diameter like a match stick and chewing 
one end of it until the fibers are separated, giving it the appearance of 
a small broom. Saturating this with saliva, they dip it in their box 
of snuff, and then place it as far back in the mouth as possible, leaving 
the other end stick out. Many walk along the streets with the dip 
in their mouth. 
While I was employed for two weeks in New York as a sales- 
man for a large tobacco corporation, I was assigned to three stores. I 
was overwhelmingly surprised at the number of fine appearing ladies that 
came in and purchased little boxes of snuff. These diggers as I call 
them, however, conceal their performance, seeking the privacy of their 
own home when giving themselves up to their disgusting debauch. With 
a horn or spoon the abdominable stuff is deposited in the lower lip and 
thence when sufficiently moistened, passed around the mouth. At the 
rate snuff was purchased in one store, I can safely say that twenty 24 
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thousand pounds are sold weekly in New York City to the diggers, con- 
veyed to them by messenger boys, errand boys, and personal calls, all 
of which is consumed by women. The amount used by each digger varies 
from one quarter to a pound a week. But this unspeakably dreadful 
custom is by no means confined to grown-up women. Indeed it would 
seem to be, in the South, a part of a common school education; while the 
boys spit tobacco juice all over the floor, the girls hold their snuff- 
swab, or dip between the teeth, except indeed, when they share it with 
some less favored schoolmate. Many have supposed that snuff taking 
formerly so common among women and girls in the North, and what 
frequently was an understood part of the social gatherings had long died 
out. But it would seem that the habit has only changed its form and 
that from bad to very much worse. Indeed the use of snuff among 
factory girls, “to be as a sweet morsel between the cheek and gums 
is growing alarmingly prevalent.” 
The internal revenue from tobacco for one year would build fourteen 
battleships of the first class; or it would pay the salary of the Presi- 
dent of the United States for nearly a thousand years. It would pay 
the interest on the public debt for three years and there would be 
enough left over to add a dollar to the account of every savings bank 
depositor in the United States. The money spent by smokers for 
cigars only, not including tobacco-cigarettes, cigarettes, smoking or 
chewing tobacco and snuff would more than pay for the building 
of the Panama Canal besides taking care of the fifty million dollars 
paid to the French Canal Co.; and the Republic of Panama for the 
property and franchises, and in addition to this it would cover the 
cost of fortifying the Canal; or it would build a fleet of thirty-five 
transatlantic liners, each exactly like the lost Titanic. Coal them, 
provision them and keep them running between New York and Liver- 
pool with a full completement of passengers and crew almost indefi- 
nitely or the sum would pay for the construction of two railroads 
around the earth of twenty thousand dollars a mile, or it would build 
a hundred thousand churches or a hundred thousand school houses or 
employ a half million preachers or lecturers, and a million teachers at 
a salary of five hundred dollars a year and have money to spare. 
The annual per capita consumption of cigars in the United States 
counting men, women and children is eighty six cigars. 
If all the cigars smoked in the United States in one year were 
put together, end to end they would girdle the earth, at it largest cir- 
Some Remarkable Figures About Tobacco AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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cumferance twenty-two times. Reports show that above one hundred 
million pounds of manufactured tobacco and over one billion five hun- 
dred million cigars are used up in one year, at an expense of over two 
hundred and seventy five millions of dollars. 
The City of New York with its six million population consumes 
one hundred million cigars annually at a cost of above ten million dol- 
lars, enough to build, equip and furnish the New Court House. 
As to the cigarettes, there are 1 5 billion, 800 million consumed in 
one year. This means one billion five hundred and eighty million 
packages. 23,736,190 every day, 989,007 every hour, 16,482 
every minute. With every tick of the watch night and day, the year 
round, the buts of 275 smoked up cigarettes are dropped from the 
hands of men and boys. More than a billion more cigarettes were 
made in the fiscal year of 1916 than in the previous year. 
Cigarette smokers in the United States (not including those who roll 
their own smokes from tobacco) spend $60,645,966.36 for the little 
“white slavers,” coffin nail, white cigars or mathematicians. 
If all the cigarettes smoked in the United States in just one year 
were placed end to end and stood up, vertically they would make a pole 
rising 512,766 miles into the heavens. If strung on a wire they would 
reach from earth to moon and back again with enough left to circle 
the globe almost twice. 
If this quantity of tobacco could be placed on one side of a huge 
balancing scale it would take the combined weight of four vast armies 
each consisting of one million men to pull down the other side of 
the scale. - , 
This mass if transformed into roll tobacco two inches in diameter 
would coil around the world six times. It would need the space of the 
Egyptian Pyramid and the Eiffel Tower, or the space occupied by the 
Ford Automobile Factory in Detroit, Michigan. 
The weight of the tobacco consumed in the United States in just 
one year is equal to the weight of the entire combined population of 
Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama. 
The latest 1914 census figures of our national budget show our 
manufactured tobacco to be the fifth ranking product of the United 
States, far above Women’s Clothing, Automobiles, Copper, Petroleum, 
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What more effective appeal to the heart and head can be made 
than by these figures while millions of tons of tobacco annually are 
consumed by smokers, chewers and sniffers, while from across the 
water the outstretched hands of the war suffers pleading and imploring 
beg for the bread of life, which must be denied for lack of means 
to send it. 
Indefinitely continued comparisons can be had by consulting books 
upon the subject, so I conclude this chapter well aware that you, dear 
reader, have a clear idea of what cigars and cigarettes are costing 
America in a monetary way but what of the mental, moral and physi- 
cal damage being done, surely it is a far greater significance, and suf- 
fering cannot be expressed in dollars and cents. 
Still another point deserves consideration. Besides the hours that 
many spend on tobacco, from which, to say the least, they get no bene- 
fit, is the fact that the narcotic, by diminishing their force, tends to 
lessen the value of their remaining time. Moreover, it is estimated by 
medical men that the victims of the weed, on an average, cut short their 
life about one quarter. Thus from an average life of forty-five to fifty, 
about ten or twelve are sacrificed to this evil doer. 
Nor is this all. In order to make a fair estimate of what the drug 
costs the‘country we ought to visit our custodial homes, almshouses 
reform schools, industrial schools, houses of correction, insane asylums, 
feeble minded homes, jails, penitentiaries, and prisons, to which poverty, 
disease and crime, resulting from the tobacco-fiend, with intemperance 
following in its wake, bring hundreds and thousands. For the support 
of all these we are taxed, and that doubly, since we are also assessed 
to supply many of them with the very poison that brought them there. 
Forest fires in Massachusetts in 1908 caused by cigarette, cigar and 
pipe smokers, 1 1 1 in all amounts in money loss to $33,000. 
In Connecticut in 1912, 116 such fires were caused by smokers. 
One hundred million dollars is the estimated loss by fire in the 
United States every year caused by smokers. 
A carelessly flung cigarette set fire to 100,000 gallons of gasoline 
and kerosene at the pier of the Texas Oil Company, at the foot of 
West First St., Bayonne, N. J. It caused a blaze that destroyed the pier 27 
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and a barge and spread burning oil out over the water in a sheet of 
flame for several hundred yards, endangering the fireboats that had been 
called from New York. The damage was estimated at $250,000 
when the oil had burned itself out and the fire was under control. 
The blaze started among a pile of cans of gasoline shortly after 
4 o’clock, where, it is supposed, one of the men engaged in loading 
the barge had hurriedly tossed a cigarette to escape observation by a 
foreman. 
A fortunate change in the wind carried the flames away from six 
large storage tanks, each containing from 20,000 to 45,000 gallons 
of gasoline. 
Mother and Wife Rescued from Burning House 
A man, twenty five, went to bed with a lighted cigar in his mouth 
at his home in Port Morris, N. J. He died an hour later from burns. 
Railroad men who saw the flames rescued his wife and mother. 
The Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in New York City was found 
by the New York Safety Board to have been caused by a cigarette. 
This cost one-hundred and forty lives—thousands of dollars paid out 
in life and fire insurance, made widows and orphans and an untold 
amount of sadness. 
The old Equitable building, 120 Broadway, N. Y., was destroyed 
by fire in 1912, the cause having been the earless tossing of a match 
(after lighting a cigarette) into a waste-paper basket by a patron of 
the restaurant in the building. 
The number of fires per year caused by carlessness with cigars and 
cigarettes, in New York City, in 1913 were 1,079; in 1914, 1,342, 
and in 1915, 1,306. 
A woman speaking of her experience on Blackwells Island said: 
“No one knows how terrible it is there. I was herded with women 
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Tn>o Loft Smokers Sentenced 
Two prisoners tried in vain to convince Magistrate Cobb in the 
Municipal Term Court that cigarette-smoking is the best remedy for 
a toothache. What they succeeded in convincing him of was that the 
prison dentist at the Tombs was the right man to examine their teeth. 
Both were of Brookyln, charged with smoking cigarettes in a down- 
town loft building, and both were sent to the Tombs on short sentences. 
One prisoner produced a wisdom tooth as evidence, with the remark: 
“See, Judge, my tooth ached so badly that I had to have it pulled 
out. Smoking, believe me, drives the pain away.” 
“I was born in America and have been well educated. You should 
have more consideration for me than these foreigners caught smoking 
in the factory.” 
This insistance caused the offender to be fined $30 instead 
of $20, for smoking in a clothing factory. The magistrate thought 
his boast was all the more reason that he should obey the law. Several 
smoke law violators who could not read English were fined $20. 
A deputy internal revenue collector, was arrainged before United 
States Commissioner charged with accepting bribes from tobacco dealers. 
His arrest, according to the Assistant United States District Attorney, 
reveals a loss of several hundred thousand dollars to the Government 
through tobacco frauds. 
The public cigar cutter is a health menace. 
America’s most valuable crop is babies. 
All “society ladies” smoke and drink, and a husband did not think 
that his wife should regard herself as better than they and refrain from 
the customs, according to her complaint in an action for a separation. 
His wife alleges that he was cruel, principally in insisting that she 
drink cocktails and smoke cigarettes. She failed to comply with his 
wishes, she says, and was referred to by him in the future as “not a 
good sport.” AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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After smoking a daily average of sixty cigarettes for thirty-three 
years, a New Jersey gentleman has quit “the wicked weed” under 
orders of his physician. 
He said that since he began smoking he had used approximately 
722,700 cigarettes. If they all were made in one roll he would have 
a cigarette thirty-four miles long, valued at $7,227. 
The pieces smoked by the man in thirty-three years would make 
a fair cargo for a steamship and produce enough smoke to smother 
the Greek army, or enough hot air to inflate a fleet of Zeppelins. 
He is not a man who wastes time, and he was surprised to find 
that if he required ten minutes to smoke one cigarette he spent fourteen 
years doing away with the 722,700 items in his record. 
Record 1916 Tax on Cigarettes 
“The amount of cigarettes consumed by the American people in 
1916 apparently was greater than in any other previous year since 1 909 
according to the tax returns to the Treasury Department. The amount 
of revenue collected by the Government on cigarettes during the year 
was the greatest on record.” 
Consumption of cigarettes in 1916 reached the highest mark ever 
recorded. The tremendous increase—more than 40 per cent, over 1915 
—is attributed to the growth in the cigarette habit among women and 
boys, and to the purchasing and exporting of cigarettes for the soldiers 
in the war zones. 
The number of paper wrapper cigarettes upon which the Gov- 
ernment levied a tax reached 25,232,960,928, as compared with 
17,939,234,208 in 1915. 
Cigarettes yielded internal revenue to the amount of $31,541,200 
in 1916 and $22,424,042 in 1915. Tobacco exported in the last 
fiscal year amounted to $53,163,595. 30 
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WHAT THE BIG MEN OF THE COUNTRY 
SAY ABOUT CIGARETTES AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Detroit Times March 20, 1916 
“One hundred cigarettes a day were too much for Frank Winters 
aged 46 years, of this city. He was declared to have been mentally 
affected by excessive smoking in a certificate filed in the Probate Court, 
Saturday morning, by Dr. M. A. Layton. 
“A petition asking for the commitment of Winters to an insane 
asylum was filed with the probate court by Joseph Perman, No. 542 
Lawndale Ave., with whom Winters lives. 
“His strange actions had made his associates think him insane. Dr. 
Layton declared in his report that he was unable to find well defined 
symptoms of insanity, but that cigarettes had made him simple minded.” 
Dr. Charles B. Towns, of New York, is a recognized authority 
on neurotics. He has for many years specialized in the treatment of 
nervous diseases. Recently he has been assisting Mrs. William K. 
Vanderbilt, Sr., in her crusade against drug habits. Here is his esti- 
mate of the cigarette as expressed in an article in the Century Magazine: 
“It is generally admitted that in the immature the moderate use 
of tobacco stunts the normal growth of the body and mind, and causes 
various nervous disturbances, especially of the heart—disturbances which 
it causes in later life only when smoking has become excessive. That 
is to say, though a boy’s stomach grows tolerant of nicotine to the 
extent of taking it without protest, the rest of the body keeps on protest- 
ing. Furthermore, all business men will tell you that tobacco damages 
a boy’s usefulness in his work. This is necessarily so, since anything 
which lowers vitality creates some kind of incompetence. For the same 
reason, the boy who smokes excessively not only is unable to work vigor- 
ously, but he does not wish to work at all. If there were some instru- 
ment to determine it, in my opinion there would be seen a difference of 
fifteen per cent, in the general efficiency of smokers and non-smokers. 
And despite the fact that cigarette smoking is the worst form of tobacco 
addiction, virtually all boys who smoke start with cigarettes.” 
The relation of tobacco, especially in the form of cigarettes, and 
alcohol and opium is a very close one. “For years I have been dealing 
with alcoholism and morphinism, have gone into their every phase and 
aspect, have kept careful and minute details of between six and seven 
thousand cases, and I have never seen a case, except occasionally with 
women, which did not have a history of excessive tobacco. A boy 
always starts smoking before he starts drinking. If he is disposed to 
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of tobacco makes it normal for him to feel the need of stimulation. He 
is likely to go to , alcohol to soothe the muscular unrest, to blunt the 
irritation he has received from tobacco. From alcohol he goes to mor- 
phine for the same reason. The nervous condition due to execssive drink- 
ing is allayed by morphine, just as the nervous condition due to exces- 
sive smoking is allayed by alcohol. Morphine is the legitimate conse- 
quence of alcohol, and alcohol is the legitimate consequence of tobacco. 
Cigarettes, drink and opium, is the logical and regular series.” 
The Burroughs Adding Machine Company’s plant at Detroit, 
Mich., is one of the country’s model industrial institutions, every atten- 
tion being paid to the physical and mental well-being of the employes. 
Only the highest grade of machinists are employed and these are selected 
with care.. (I have witnessed this during my lectures to these men.) 
Writes General Manager Lauver: 
“We have taken no definite steps to suppress cigarette smoking other 
than to forbid the smoking of cigarettes in our office. I wish you success 
in your effort to correct the evils of cigarette smoking on the part of 
young boys, and am frank to say that, other things equal, we will always 
give preference for employment to boys and young men who do not 
smoke cigarettes.” 
The fame of John Wanamaker, merchant prince, with immense 
establishments in New York and Philadelphia, where thousands of per- 
sons are employed, is world-wide. Mr. Wanamaker says: 
“The question of the use of tobacco and cigarettes by the young 
men who make application to us for employment comes in for serious 
consideration, and where there is evidence of the excessive use of cigar- 
ettes the applicant is invariably refused a place in our ranks.” 
THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR 
Len G. Shaw 
I shall not mention their names. That would be revealing indentities 
that might better not be disclosed, for the sake of both. Neither shall 
I sketch the two careers to intimately. If I did it is more than likely 
that even in his pitiable mental state the one would recognize the portrait 
of himself, and there is no desire on my part to add one jot to the mental 
anguish he must suffer when in the few lucid moments he is permitted 
to look back over opportunities that were worse than wasted. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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It was in the heat of a gubernatorial campaign in Michigan that I 
first met them—two fellows whom to know was to like. One was the 
star political writer on a metropolitan newspaper, the other a reporter on 
a small city daily. 
They had struck up an acquaintance during the afternoon, while 
one of the gubernatorial candidates the political writer was accompany- 
ing on a spellbinding tour was making a speech at the country fair 
grounds. 
We sat up late that night in the hotel lobby, swapping stories and 
talking over matters of mutual interest, and I was impressed by the 
striking similarity of characteristics in the two men. Both were splendid 
physical specimens of manhood, clean-cut, alert, immaculately attired— 
men who would attract attention in a crowd. 
Scarcely had we settled down in our chairs when the political 
writer produced a box of cigarettes, and after extracting one for his 
own consumption passed them to his new-found acquaintance. They 
were declined with thanks. 
“Ha,” laughed the political writer, jokingly, “you have no small 
vices, eh?” 
The reporter looked grave. 
“I am not sure that is such a small vice,” he replied slowly. 
“Oh, well, we’ll not quarrel over that,” went on the political writer. 
“I do not smoke much myself.” 
It was some months later, in Lansing, that I met them. They were 
“covering” the legislature for rival papers in the same city, but this fact 
had no bearing on their friendship. They were inseparable and had 
come to be known as Damon and Pythias, so devoted were they to 
each other’s interests. Only, wherever Damon was encountered he 
would be found puffing at a half-burned cigarette, or with feverish haste 
rolling a fresh one. 
The years rolled by. I kept close track of the small town reporter 
who had developed into a star metropolitan man, and was turning his 
attention to theatrical reviewing with marked success. But the political 
writer had dropped from view, following a disagreement with the news- 
paper he served. 
One day a shadow fell across my path, and I looked up to come 
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were in sore need of a valet, and his linen had not been on speaking 
terms with a laundry for some time back. He grinned at my gasp of 
astonishment. 
“I don’t wonder you are surprised,” he went on. “You see, I’ve 
been down in Georgia, working on a peach farm. I had to do some- 
thing, so I thought I’d cut out the old life for a time. I’m pretty near 
down and out—but I’ll come back. I’m just as good today as I ever 
was, and I’ll show those fellows that have turned against me. By the 
way, can you spare me a cigarette?” 
A month or so later I was wandering along the docks,watching the 
operations of a gang of lumber shovers, when an overalled figure separ- 
ated itself from the rest of the party and come shuffling over to where 
I stood. There was something familiar about the man, yet I had to 
look a second time before certain as to the identity of the grimy, perspir- 
ing individual. 
“Yes, it’s me,” he volunteered, extending a calloused hand on the 
fingers of which the tell-tale yellow cigarette stains showed through the 
dirt. “You’d never have thought it of me, would you?” 
There was a wistfulness in his tones, and it seemed almost as though 
tears glistened in the shifting eyes. 
“You see,” he went on, “it was a little dull in the newspaper busi- 
ness, and I had to live while something was turning up in the old game, 
so I’m down here for a little while. It doesn’t pay very much—and it’s 
awful hard work—but it’s enough to keep me going until I get back. 
I can make good again. All I need is a fair show. I’ve got the stuff 
in me if I get a chance. And by the way”— 
I hadn’t. If I had possessed a cigarette, I think it would have been 
his without the asking. He craved it like a man recovering from a long 
spree craves a drink of whisky to slake his thirst. 
From time to time strange stories reached me concerning the one- 
time political writer. He was successively panhandler, hobo and potato 
peeler in the kitchen of the country infirmary, to which he obtained 
admittance through the good offices of men who had known him in the 
prime of his career. 
It was a crisp October morning suggestive of winter apparel. At 
a downtown corner stood a gaunt figure, from whose parchment-like 
countenance two fishy eyes stared forth uncomprehendingly. Under his 
arm he carried a small bundle of newspapers that he essayed unsuccess- Boys! Think of the result of Cigarette Smoking. 36 
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fully to dispose of to passersby. And as he called the papers in a rasp- 
ing monotone he pulled away at a cigarette “butt” he had picked 
from the gutter. 
I saw him again the other day, moving unsteadily along the street, 
having eyes but not seeing, possessed of ears yet not hearing. The 
overalls that partly encased his withered limbs \yere frayed at the bot- 
tom and flapped about forlonly with every step. A checked blouse 
took the place of a coat. A ragged straw hat, whose original color 
had long since disappeared beneath a coat of grime, surmounted his 
tousled hair. His face resembled that of a coal heaver at the end of 
a day’s toil. His hands, swinging loosely at his sides, were dark as 
those of an African. 
I have seen men in the throes of delirium tremens, screeching for 
help at the top of their voices, while hospital attendants fought to restrain 
them. I never saw so horrible a spectacle as was represented by this 
one-time Beau Brummel, who had forfeited every claim to consideration, 
and sunk to unbelievable depths—victim of the Little White Slaver. 
Not one of his former acquaintances would have recognized him in 
this pitiable condition—and it was well. 
Possibly before you read these lines Death will have mercifully laid 
hold on this human derelict, and he will have passed to the great beyond. 
The other man—the one who had “no small vices?” He is to-day 
dramatic editor of one of the leading New York newspapers, standing 
well toward the head of his profession, a man known personally by 
every actor and actress of consequence in the country, and whose opin- 
ions are accepted as authoritative. 
The late Booker T. Washington, negro educator, and principal of 
The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which he organized at 
Tuskegee, Alabama, declared that cigarettes cause a breaking down of 
will power and a blunting of the moral sense. He wrote: We have 
had some interesting experiences at Tuskegee Institute with boys who 
smoke cigarettes, for every year in the thousand or more young men 
assembled here there are, of course, a few who are addicted to this 
habit. We have a rule prohibiting smoking by our students. 
“For disciplinary purposes our students are organized on a military 
basis with a commandant. Major J. B. Ramsey, who for many years 
has held this position, states that it is generally the students who have 
the cigarette habit who give the most trouble with reference to discipline. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Their will power is broken down, their moral sense is blunted, and it 
is very difficult when inveterate smokers before coming here, to make 
anything of them; they will go any length, take any sort of risk to 
get an opportunity to smoke a cigarette. It may also interest you to 
know that in connection with our hospital, boys addicted to the cigarette 
habit are given regular treatment for its cure.” 
When Dr. Harvey Wiley was chief of the federal bureau of 
chemistry at Washington he had impure food and drug manufacturers 
on the run all the time. He is unquestionably the leading health and 
food authority in the United States to-day. Would you know his opin- 
ion of the cigarette? 
“I commend Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison and all people who join them 
in efforts to curtail or restrict, obliterate or destroy the pernicious habit 
of cigarette smoking. The use of cigarettes is making inroads on the 
strength of the nerves of all who smoke them, especially boys of tender 
years or women who smoke them because they think that the practice 
is smart. The effect may not be so bad on people of more mature years, 
but not in any case, no matter how old a man or woman, is smoking 
helpful. Besides constituting a nuisance, the financial strain connected 
with the use of tobacco stands between millions of people and home 
comforts.” 
Professor Winfield S. Hall, of Northwestern University, Evanston, 
Illinois, is one of the country’s foremost physiologists. Professor Hall 
knows what smoking means, as he was for years addicted to the habit. 
Regarding the practice, and how it is viewed even by those who con- 
tinue it, he says in the course of a personal letter to young men: 
“Before entering the competition which is society’s balance in which 
every aspirant for success must be weighed, suppose a young man seeks 
the advice of his elders as to what he can take or do to make his chances 
for success more certain or to make the success more complete. If he 
asks his father or grandfather, do you suppose he will be advised to 
begin the use of tobacco or opium or alcholic beverages? If he ask a 
physician, will he be advised to begin the use of some drug, as nicotine, 
morphine, cocaine, which will blunt his sensibilities, take the edge off 
his alertness, and make him care less if his tailor’s bill is unpaid? These 
powers are the capital stock of a young man. Knowingly to decrease 
the value or efficiency of one’s capital is recognized by all men as a very 
poor business proceeding. 
“The young man may remind us that his father and his grand- 
father, his legal adviser, his physician, and his pastor all smoke, even 
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example. If these men just referred to have secured a measure of 
success, it was not because of their use of tobacco, but in spite of that 
habit. It is usually more safe to be guided by the precept of our 
advisers than by their example. 
“Though many professional men use tobacco, I have yet to hear 
the first one advise a young man or boy to begin its use. If asked 
whether they would advise a young man to begin the use of tobacco, 
they uniformly answer, ‘No.’ Most men who use tobacco regret that 
they ever formed the habit, but make no effort, or at best only ineffect- 
ual efforts, to stop it. This is the universal experience with a drug 
habit, whether the drug be nicotine, alcohol or morphine.” 
The Cigarette a Slaver? 
Here is a story taken from the Detroit Free Press so typical of the 
hold the cigarette takes on its victims as to require no comment further 
than to call attention to what one addicted to the use of the little white 
slaver did with his last fifteen cents as prison gates yawned to en- 
gulf him: 
“Neil Benstead, 32 years old, fugitive from justice who surren- 
dered himself to the Detroit police Sunday afternoon, even though he 
faces an unexpired term of seven years in Jackson, explains very frankly 
his reason for doing so.” ‘I had done seven years of a fourteen-year 
sentence for forgery and had been paroled when I laid down five 
worthless checks for $30 apiece in Memphis, Mich., about a year 
ago,’ said Benstead. ‘I easily made my escape to Ohio. There I 
went to work as a boiler-maker in a locomotive works at Lima, Ohio. 
I was making $23 a week and had $260 in the bank. 
“ ‘Everything went along well until about two weeks ago when 
I saw two Lima plain clothes men looking over the men in the shop. 
I knew they were looking for me and made up my mind quickly. That 
evening I drew the $260 I had saved from the bank. I spent it having 
one last fling in Ohio cities. When I got to Toledo and found that I 
had just enough for fare to Detroit I boarded the car, intending to 
give myself up. 
“ ‘I found that I had just fifteen cents left when I reached Detroit. 
That ivent for a package of cigarettes.' 
“Benstead did not have a cent when the detectives searched his 
clothes.” AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Once Defended Tobacco—Norv He Feels Differently 
One of the authorities quoted, in defense of tobacco was Dr. 
Leonard Keene Hirshberg, of Baltimore. Dr. Hirshberg did defend 
tobacco. He freely admits it. But he also frankly states that within 
a year his views have been entirely revised, because of the evidence 
adduced. In Physical Culture Magazine under the caption, “The 
Truth About Tobacco,” Dr. Hirshberg says: 
“Cigars, cigarettes, the pipe, and chewing tobacco are, like a cer- 
tain notorious character, forever being haled into court before the bar 
of moral and scientific justice. With its moral aspect a scientist has 
nothing to do, but the truth is mighty, and must prevail, so the facts 
must, even though from day to day they seem to change, be brought 
out. Their eternal and ever shifting state may be judged from my 
analysis last year in Harper's when I, a non-smoker, was 
forced to take up the cudgels in favor of smoking. Now after the 
lapse of a brief interval it must perforce be said that the world does 
move, because the evidence at hand seems to be against tobacco.” 
Dr. Pease Replies, Condemning Tobacco as the Most Poisonous and 
Destructive of Drugs 
To the Editor of The Evening Sun: 
Sir—Nicotia Cara,” who, in your issue of this date, says that 
tobacco smoking as a ‘‘harmless means of enjoyment” is either grossly 
ignorant or criminally untruthful. I would advise your readers to con- 
sult reputable authorities and warn the unwary not to accept the false 
statements of victims of drug addiction, tobacco being the most poison- 
ous of drugs and so dangerous that it has been “kicked out of the 
pharmacopoeia of every civilized country.” 
I would refer the reader to the findings of Dr. Jay W. Seaver 
of Yale, Prof. Hitchock of Amherst and Prof. William A. McKeever 
of the Kansas State College. Also the National Dispensatory, the 
United States Dispensatory and other standard works. Tobacco, 
more than any other factor, is degenerating the race with alarming 
rapidity and causing the untimely death of multitudes of our people. 
Among the self-slain—tobacco self-administered—are such well known 
men as Mark Twain, ex-President Grant, the late Gen. Federick D. 
Grant and President McKinley, who, the physicians said, would have 
recovered from the gunshot wound had he not had a tobacco heart. 
Beautiful examples of sensuous enjoyment in the use of a filthy, befoul- 
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trasted with majesty of manhood that is one with normality and self- 
sufficiency, is appalling and is explanatory of the advocacy of this 
drug addiction by its victims. Chas. G. Pease M. D. 
Radcliffe students at Cambridge, Mass., cannot smoke and at the 
same time expect to keep their rooms in dormitories, the faculty has 
decreed. Placards have been distributed about the dormitories and read 
by the hall mistresses to the student body forbidding indulgence in the 
weed—if they do use it, which most of them deny. 
A member of the German Army Medical Corps, writing from 
the front to the Frankfurter Zeitung urges fruit and vegetables be sent 
to the soldiers in the fighting line. It is difficult, he says, to obtain 
either fruit or vegetables in France, and the lack of such fresh food 
at a time when men can obtain hardly any exercise is exerting a 
deleterious effect on their general health. 
The men get an abundance of ordinary nourishing food the writer 
says, and he strongly recommends that their friends should send them 
fruit and jam instead of chocolate, tobacco, cigars and cigarettes. 
When love can endure a dirty, tobacco-stained mouth without a 
shudder, it is the real article. 
Law on Cigarettes, 
A tobacconist, who conducts a cigar and candy store on upper 
Broadway, N. Y., was arraigned in the Morrisania Court, charged 
with selling a package of cigarettes to a minor. The magistrate after 
hearing the evidence held the man in $200 bail for Special Sessions. 
The policeman testified he saw a thirteen year old boy enter the 
store and purchase a package of cigarettes. The policeman informed 
the Court that the principal of the school near by had complained to 
his captain that a number of pupils were seen smoking cigarettes on 
several occasions. The boy was questioned and he admitted buying 
the cigarettes at the accused’s. 
The boy also admitted buying cigarettes from defendent on one 
other occasion. He stated that he delivered prescriptions for a druggist 
next to the defendent’s store. 
Defendent stated that every one in the neighborhood knew that 
the boy delivered packages for the druggist and when he came into his 
store for the cigarettes he believed it was for the durggist. 
Matthias Nicoll, Jr., M. D., Secretary of the New York State 
Department of Health, writes that the law of New York State on 
cigarettes is Section 484 of the Penal Law as follows: AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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“Sec. 484. A person who: * * * * 
5. Sells, pays for or furnishes any cigar, cigarette or tobacco in 
any of its forms to any child actually or apparently under the age of 
sixteen years 
* * * Is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
It shall be no defense to a prosecution for a violation of subdivi- 
sions three, four, five or six of this section, that in the transaction upon 
which the prosecution is based the child acted as the agent or repre- 
sentative of another, or that the defendant dealt with such child as the 
agent or representative of another.” 
A law to make the smoker of a cigarette liable to arrest is in pros- 
pect. A bill with that provision has been passed by the Oklahoma 
House of Representatives. 
One of the worst habits of the boy of to-day is the cigarette 
habit. It has long been recognized by all judges of the courts, espe- 
cially in the juvenile courts, before whom pass thousands of boys 
addicted to cigarettes. In nearly every case this bad habit leads to 
another. The nicotine and poison in the cigarette whets an appetite 
for drink and all other demons of habit come in and add to the degrad- 
ation that the cigarette began. In most every case the boy is made 
weak and finds it difficult to resist temptation because he has contracted 
this terrible habit which weakens his character, rendering him unable 
to resist evil when it attacks him. 
The day is coming—the climax—when all business men of the 
country will refuse to employ boys and young men who smoke cigarettes, 
because they know by actual tests that the cigarette smoker cannot 
be trusted. 
No boy does his duty to himself, his home, school, city, or his 
country, who indulges in this vicious habit of smoking cigarettes. Cig- 
arettes subtract from the brain, multiplying your troubles, and divide 
you from that which you ought to have. No other habit is more 
responsible for the troubles of boys than the cigarette, coffin-nail or 
white cigar. 
More stringent laws should be enacted and enforced, and some- 
thing like the following would tend to decrease the ruining of our boys: 
“Every person under the age of sixteen who shall smoke or use 
cigarettes, cigars, or tobacco in any public road, street or alley, park, 
or other lands used for public purposes, or in any public place of busi- 
ness or amusement, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5.00 
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“Any person who shall permit any person under the age of six- 
teen to use cigarettes, cigars, or tobacco in any form, in or upon the 
premises occupied by him, shall be punished for the first offense by a 
fine of not more than $ 10.00, and for any subsequent offense by a fine 
of not more than $25.00, or by imprisonment for not exceeding fifteen 
days.” 
Manufacturers and retailers giving away cigarettes or cigarette 
papers or tobacco to minors should also be dealt with according to 
laws to be enacted by state or city. Boys of the age of about fifteen 
years are often found smoking cigarettes, wasting their time in the pool- 
rooms trying to get the fifteen ball in the side pocket, spilling their 
energy, eating up their vitality, weakening the brain, indulging in crude 
and licentious pastime, and neglecting their body, which causes the 
loss of manhood, making the brain incapable of understanding, which 
is the short road to the home for the feeble-minded; instead of develop- 
ing his brain to fit him to become able to bear the responsibility of 
fatherhood. 
“CIGARETTES AND DRUGS DEVELOP GUNMEN" 
(From the New York American) 
Bernard Hartman, School Board Member, Opens Fight Against Sale 
of Tobacco to Children—Scores of Stores Violate Law by Selling 
Weeds and Dope to School Children, He Declares 
Severely condemning the practice of certain storekeepers in Harlem 
and the Bronx of selling cigarettes and narcotics to school children and 
asserting that in this way gunmen and criminals are developed. Ber- 
nard Hartman, one of the prominent citizens of the upper section of 
the city and a member of the local school board, has launched a cam- 
paign against the offenders with a view of driving them out of business. 
Mr. Hartman following an exhaustive investigation of the con- 
dition among the school children makes the assertion that half of the 
criminals of the city are created as a direct result of their first cigarette. 
Cigarettes, he contends, breeds in the undeveloped minor a desire for 
wildness, which if not curbed, leads the children to crime. 
“In several schools of the city there are classes in which the main 
body of pupils is nothing more than staring-eyed boys, made incompe- 
tent to study because of their indulgence in cigarette smoking and gam- 
bling. There is every evidence, too, that many are not without a 
knowledge of the taste of cocaine. The evil is most insidious, and must 
be stamped out. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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From Schenectady Gazette, June 15, 1916 
Dr. L. L. Krauss of the Bureau of Moral and Hygienic Education 
of New York City, who has been in Schenectady, N. Y. for several 
days, gave the second of his interesting talks yesterday noon at the 
American Locomotive Company. A large gathering of the employes 
listened to Dr. Krauss’ remarks and appeared to be greatly interested 
in the work in which he is engaged. 
Yesterday, assisted by Mrs. Krauss, who accompanied her husband 
on his flying trip to this city, 1,500 books and pamphlets treating of 
the work that is being done by this society, together with its aims and 
accomplishments, were distributed throughout the city. Mrs. Krauss 
started a campaign yesterday against the smoking of cigarettes by small 
boys, and endeavored to persuade them from this habit. 
Last night Dr. Krauss spoke for two and one-half hours at State 
and Barrett Streets. To-day at noon Dr. Krauss will again address 
the employes of the General Electric Company, at the main gate, thus 
giving an opportunity for the two thousand or more office employes to 
hear him. 
Dr. Krauss Addresses More Large Meetings 
An Open Letter to Superintendents of Sunday 
Schools of Dutchess County 
The eleventh day of June each year has been dedicated to the 
subject of cigarettes. I wish to call your attention to this fact, and 
knowing the bad effects of the use of same by our boys and the alluring 
advertisements of the cigarette that appear in some of our papers and 
magazines it would seem that every Sunday School superintendent should 
see to it, that the children in our Sunday Schools were made aware of 
the evil effects of the cigarette on their physical condition. 
We ought to try to prevent the use of them before the habit is 
formed. What a blessing it would be if tobacco could be used as we 
believe God intended it should be, for the destruction of parasites instead 
of injuring the human. 
Our state Sunday School officers request that the laws of our state 
regarding the cigarette be read in the schools cn that day and I hope 
some explanation of them be given by superintendent or pastor. 
If we expect to have clean citizens we must keep the children clean. 
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Dr. Emanuel Deligtisch, the noted physician of New York City, 
writes: The overuse of tobacco among our young is indeed a serious 
problem. In spite of the public school instruction as to the physiologic 
action of tobacco and its poisonous effects, the consumption of tobacco is 
greatly on the increase. Cigarette smoking, unfortunately, is tolerated 
in some preparatory schools. In fact, a large number of young men 
under twenty-one years of age smoke excessively and to their detriment 
mentally and physically. 
The symptoms of over smoking are seen in the impared chest and 
lung development, the impaired heart action, nutrition, injured nerves and 
weakened muscles are all matters of medical knowledge. I would 
emphatically state that growing boys should not be allowed to smoke, 
even if their fathers do. 
The deleterious or harmful effects resulting from the use of tobacco 
is due to a poisonous alkaloid nicotine. It is the most important ingre- 
dient of tobacco or its smoke. In large doses this poison acts similar to 
hydrocyanic acid. 
Nicotine acts mainly on the circulatory and central nervous systems. 
Experiments have shown that its action on the important centers in the 
brain is marked. There is first a stimulation, then death results from 
paralysis of the respatory center. The vagus nerve sends branches to the 
heart and other important viscera of the body. Nicotine at first stimu- 
lates this nerve, thereby slowing the heart. This is followed by paralysis 
of the nerve, which then causes the heart to beat very rapidly and irregu- 
lar. We are all familiar with the rapid, irregular palpitating heart of 
people who use tobacco to excess. Nicotine causes salivation and vomit- 
ing, which is probably due to stimulation of the medulla in the brain. 
The effect on the blood vessels is important, causing a contraction of the 
vessels, due to vasomotor stimulation, which increases the blood pressure 
leading later on to arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. Later on, 
when the ganglia which control the vessels become depressed, the pres- 
sure falls. The heart muscle eventually wears out mainly because of the 
lowered coronary pressure. The coronary vessels supply the heart with 
blood and hence when the coronary pressure is lowered, there is a retar- 
dation of the circulation to the heart. And as the heart does not receive 
the proper nourishment, it undergoes various fatty changes and wears out. 
The direct action of nicotine on the heart muscle causes it to become 
irritable. 
Nicotine exerts its poisonous influence on the muscular system. The 
tone of the muscles is lowered and hence the individual user of tobacco 
and cigarettes cannot come up to the expectations, or do the amount of AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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work of one who abstains from tobacco. It has a bad influence on the 
intestines, increasing peristalsis, and producing an irritability on the entire 
digestive tract. The toxicity of nicotine is very rapid and fatal. The 
vapor arising from a glass rod moistened with it and brought under the 
beak of a small bird causes it to drop dead at once. Tobacco contains 
a large quantity of nicotine. One cigar contains enough of nicotine which 
would prove fatal to two persons, if directly injected into the circulation. 
In cases of poisoning as occur in smoking, there is an increase flow of 
saliva, nausea and vomiting. The sweat glands are effected. There is 
a sense of exhaustion, palpitation of the heart, convulsions and collapse. 
Tobacco smoke contains other active poisonous substances beside nicotine 
as pyridin, preolin, quinolin. Pyridin is very irritating. All these cause 
local effects as biting of the tongue. The constant local irritation favors 
the development of cancer. It also irritates the mucous membrane of the 
mouth, throat and pharynx, causing hoarseness. 
Nicotine effects vary to a great extent in different individuals. The 
young are much more readily poisoned than adults. The effects due to 
chronic intoxication with tobacco can be seen by palpitation of the heart, 
the pulse rate is quickened. The patient suffers from distress in breath- 
ing, digestive disturbances as loss of appetite, dyspepsia, inflammation of 
the bowels with diarrhea. All this tends to a lowering of the vitality 
with emaciation anemia, leaving the individual susceptible to any inter- 
current disease that may attack him. He is restless at night and suffers 
from insomnia. There is a slowness and want of energy. He has a 
sallow, pasty look. His gait is rather unsteady and there is a general 
muscular debility with tremors leaving the individual without absolute 
control of his movements. There is an excitability of the nerve endings 
in the skin and hence suffers from headaches and neuralgia. Nicotine 
may also effect the nerve of the eyes, causing dimness of vision and also 
blindness. 
Boys starting out in life who smoke cigarettes are under a severe 
handicap. It stunts their growth, and, as related above, lowers their 
vitality and prevents concentration, or prolonged mental effort which is 
concomitant and essential with the execution of doing good work. 
Smoking tends to inefficiency and, after all, it is the efficient man who is 
sought by everyone. 
Realizing the deleterious and harmful effects of cigarette smoking 
which young boys often learn to indulge in, through bad companions, I 
would advise them not to smoke and start in life with a healthy body and 
mind which, eventually leads to the ladder of success.  TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
46 
Excessive cigarette smoking caused 50 per cent, of the rejections 
at the United States Marine Corps recruiting station in New York 
City, according to a statement made by Captain Frank E. Evans, 
recruiting officer. The specific causes were faulty respiration and 
tachycardia, or rapid heart beat. 
The Marine Corps standard is very high, Captain Evans explained. 
Of the last 159 applicants examined nearly half were found to have 
symptoms easily recognized as being the result of excessive of incessant 
cigarette smoking. 
“The cause of the worst case of failure in the grade schools,” 
said Hugh Daniel, a member of the Board of Education of New- 
burg, “has been ascribed by the teachers to the use of cigarettes.” 
Mr. Daniel was discussing the case of a boy in one of the upper grades 
of the grammer school who had failed in all seven subjects. An inves- 
tigation was made and the continued use of cigarettes was found to 
be a cause for the boy’s dulled mentality. 
Oakland, Cal. college presidents, if they are to be successful, must 
have other talents than scholarship, says David Starr Jordan, chancellor 
of Stanford University in an address before the National Education 
Association. One of the requirements for the position he gave was: 
“He must not smoke.” 
The practice of tobacco manufacturers of including coupons in pack- 
ages of cigarettes was dealt a severe blow when Commissioner of Inter- 
nal Revenue ruled that such coupons may not be sent to any States with- 
out being sent to all of them. 
The Supreme Court ruled that States may prohibit the giving of 
such coupons without their jurisdiction. Several States already have 
passed laws restraining the use of coupons. 
In New York City, fifty-three cigar, cigarette and tobacco dealers 
after pleading guilty to charges preferred by internal revenue officials of 
having failed to keep their books properly, or to attach revenue stamps 
to packages containing their product, were sentenced to a day’s imprison- 
ment. They served their sentence in the court-room and were discharged 
at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Fines running from $40 to $150 were 
imposed on forty-six of the number. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
47 
By an arrangement between the Government and counsel for the 
Independent Tobacco Manufacturer’s Association of which the defen- 
dants were members, the sum of $1,965,000 was paid to the Govern- 
ment as settlement money in addition to the individual fines. 
The tobacconist watched her outside his shop window. For 
fully half an hour she stood there gazing through the panes. Then 
she came in. She fumbled and fussed, and at length brought 
forth a little packet. This she carefully untied till finally a small stub- 
end came to view. The tobacconist raised his eyebrows inquiringly. 
“Good afternoon,” said the lady, holding up the stub-end gin- 
gerly for inspection. “Here is a remnant of one of my husband’s 
special cigars. Have you anything to match it?” 
The fellow who has been sitting on the corner whittling pine and 
chewing tobacco will now begin to make arrangements to move inside 
by the stove. 
d&atclied 
Scientific Cigarette Facts 
Something should be said about cigarette smoking which is becom- 
ing so prevalent, among our boys, and which is thought by many 
to be quite harmless. The Board of Agriculture of Ohio in bulletin 
number Two by Azor Thurston, Department Chemist, entitled “Cig- 
arettes and their Analysis,” gives the following result of his findings: 
This department in the course of its regular narcotic work and in 
the investigation of narcotic sales invariably found quantities of the 
cheaper brands of the cigarettes with the opium outfits and abundant 
evidence that large qauntities of the cigarettes were consumed with the 
opium. The constant association of the use of cigarettes with narcotics 
and especially with the opium and cocaine habits, led to a more thor- 
ough investigation along this line with the result that the Drug Bureau 
called the attention of Hon. S. E. Strode, Commissioner in charge of 
the Diary and Food Division of the Agriculture Commission, to the 
conditions found. He immediately ordered a complete and full inves- 
tigation and analysis of the various brands of cigarettes on sale in this 
State. The object was to determine if possible the cause for the 
so-called cigarette habit and to determine what substance if any, 
were added to the cigarettes. Reports had reached the Bureau that 
maunfacturers of cigarettes and cheap cigars were buying large quantities 
of Tincture Opium, but this bureau was unable to verify. 48 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
From the report of the chemist Azor Thurston, which is hereinafter 
given in full we have drawn the following conclusions: 
1. No added medicinal substance of a narcotic nature was 
found in the tobacco. 
2. The tobacco products were found to be slightly lower in nico- 
tine than the average leaf tobacco. 
3. The papers were found to be treated with the carbonates and 
oxides of calcium, aluminum and magesium added probably to regulate 
the burning qualities. 
4. The well known evil effects of habitual cigarette smoking 
must be attributed to the inhalation of the smoke or the products of 
combustion rather than to any additional narcotic in either the tobacco 
or the papers. 
The work proved to be practically all original research work as 
an examination of American and Foreign authorities failed to locate 
any reports upon such work that could be used as a guide. Bureau 
of Drugs—N. R. Hower, Chief Drug Inspector. 
Determinations were made as follows: 
Nicotine—Ash—Water Soluble Ash—Water Insoluble Ash (By 
difference). 
Hydrochloric acid insoluble ash—alkalinity of water soluble ash— 
alkalinity of water insoluble ash—opium and other drugs. The same 
determinations were made of the cigarette papers, except for nicotine, 
and further tests were made for nitrates in the papers. 
So far as I know nearly all cigarette papers have chemical fillers 
presumably to improve their burning qualities. 
The Analysis 
Ash 
Austrian 
4.95 
French 
5.12 
Calcium oxide 
88.80 
84.02 
Magnesium oxide 
4.00 
4.68 
Iron, alumnia and silica oxide 
6.15 
2.15 
Sodium and potassium salts 
Trace 
Moisture 
4.30 
4.62 
Nitrates 
Trace 
Fiber 
Linen 
Organic fillers 
Starch 
Soluble constituents 
Alkaline 
Carbonate in filler as Co., at least 
2.00 
2.00 
Analysis of Cigarette Papers AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Brand 
Filler 
Cigarette Papers 
<D 
G 
O 
O 
2 
< 
o 
C/2 
O 
£ 
X 
C/3 
<J 
(0 
a 
O 
£ 
H C 1 Ins. Ash 
X 
GO 
< 
73 
o 
H 
o 
m 
o 
a 
X, 
< 
■2 
0 
O 
* 
* X 
< 
Total Alkalinity 
Ash 
X 
CO 
< 
O 
CO 
o 
£ 
X 
t/1 
< 
•Jl 
G 
o 
£ 
H C 1 Ins. Ash 
X 
C/3 
< 
*c3 
O 
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0 
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a 
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< 
C/3 
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o 
£ 
• X 
<< 
Total Alkalinity 
Ash 
Nebo 
2.03 
3.46 
18.34 
21.80 
1.53 
12.18 
13.71 
3.21 
14.30 
17.51 
6.03 
26.60 
32.63 
Fatima 
2.79 
3.53 
11.15 
2.69 
14.68 
1.56 
13.42 
14.98 
1.02 
18.79 
19.81 
.99 
40.79 
41.78 
Hassan* 
1.94 
3.73 
12.83 
4.31 
16.56 
2.35 
7.40 
9.75 
.92 
17.36 
2.24 
18.28 
1.06 
51.57 
53.63 
2.OS 
3.02 
10.49 
4.90 
13.51 
.97 
11.53 
12.50 
.96 
1.06 
2.02 
3.25 
3.25 
Nebo* 
1.93 
4.03 
11.71 
3.20 
15.74 
1.98 
18.38 
20.36 
2.29 
14.13 
.36 
16.42 
5.49 
29.96 
35.35 
Helmar 
1.56 
4.67 
13.74 
.02 
18.41 
3.89 
22.69 
26.58 
.48 
17.10 
.02 
17.58 
.69 
26.74 
27.45 
Mogul* 
1.45 
3.81 
10.94 
1.55 
14.75 
1.87 
19.61 
21.48 
1.78 
15.31 
17.09 
5.30 
34.08 
39.38 
Egyptian* 
1.59 
4.09 
14.74 
3.15 
18.83 
2.72 
24.40 
27.12 
1.08 
17.16 
18.24 
1.83 
36.26 
38.09 
Omar 
1.98 
3.64 
10.74 
2.84 
14.38 
2.35 
18.44 
20.79 
4.19 
14.02 
.45 
18.21 
.37 
35.51 
35.88 
Murad 
1.52 
3.48 
12.92 
2.13 
16.40 
3.71 
22.87 
26.58 
1.04 
16.72 
.44 
17.76 
2.38 
38.71 
41.09 
Royal Nestor 
1.47 
3.68 
14.65 
3.14 
18.33 
2.10 
21.85 
23.95 
.47 
17.94 
2.88 
18.41 
.87 
37.63 
38.50 
Turkish Trophies 
1.44 
4.08 
12.92 
2.68 
17.00 
3.00 
18.95 
21.95 
1.90 
16.36 
.25 
18.26 
6.34 
38.88 
40.22 
Home Runt 
1.89 
5.69 
13.79 
3.06 
19.48 
4.25 
22.40 
26.65 
.93 
4.04 
.78 
4.97 
1.98 
9.18 
11.16 
Home Runt 
1.67 
5.48 
12.87 
2.30 
18.35 
4.25 
22.50 
26.75 
1.60 
2.95 
4.55 
4.01 
8.63 
12.64 
Home Runt 
1.78 
6.06 
13.41 
2.31 
19.47 
4.60 
27.95 
33.55 
1.11 
3.58 
.74 
4.69 
3.72 
9.51 
13.23 
Piedmontt 
3.34 
3.06 
8.92 
2.72 
11.98 
.45 
13.05 
13.50 
.94 
4.29 
.72 
5.23 
1.59 
7.60 
9.19 
Zubelda 
1.97 
3.63 
10.68 
1.93 
14.31 
2.28 
18.15 
20.83 
1.49 
20.63 
.18 
22.12 
2.51 
44.04 
46.51 
La Lucbanat 
.43 
6.92 
15.01 
2.12 
21.93 
6.50 
23.60 
30.11 
2.16 
10.21 
1.13 
12.41 
2.03 
21.61 
23.64 
Tareyton 
1.75 
3.67 
10.51 
1.66 
14.18 
1.36 
18.39 
18.75 
.29 
13.45 
15.74 
1.74 
29.79 
31.53 
Egyptienne Luxury 
1.60 
3.88 
12.11 
2.03 
15.99 
2.75 
20.00 
22.75 
.76 
19.45 
.59 
20.21 
1.23 
52.87 
54.10 
Fifty Six 
1.43 
3.27 
12.23 
2.09 
15.50 
3.10 
19.45 
22.55 
2.17 
14.19 
1.92 
16.36 
6.39 
30.68 
37.07 
Rameses II 
1.73 
3.14 
13.50 
3.16 
16.64 
1.85 
20.20 
22.05 
1.75 
12.13 
13.88 
3.99 
30.46 
34.45 
Schinasi 
1.51 
3.48 
14.22 
2.29 
17.70 
2.60 
23.85 
26.45 
1.76 
19.84 
4.66 
21.60 
2.88 
40 61 
43.49 
Condaxtt 
1.06 
3.30 
11.67 
1.83 
14.97 
2.50 
20.50 
23.00 
1.53 
15.39 
.18 
16.92 
3.26 
45.64 
48.90 
Egyptienne Straights 
1.45 
3.98 
13.70 
2.67 
17.68 
2.50 
22.80 
25.30 
2.86 
15.09 
17.95 
7.61 
36.45 
44.06 
Egyptian Arabs 
1.35 
3.54 
14.99 
3.25 
18.53 
2.65 
22.70 
25.35 
2.09 
11.64 
2.38 
13.73 
6.19 
27.72 
33.91 
Makaroff 
1.21 
1.02 
15.65 
2.48 
16.67 
2.50 
22.00 
24.50 
.62 
10.64 
.41 
11.26 
1.03 
26.61 
27.64 
Phillip Morris & Companyt... 
1.48 
3.50 
13.44 
3.10 
16.94 
2.00 
20.50 
22.50 
1.88 
15.18 
.18 
17.06 
3.27 
39.21 
48.48 
Average 
1.69 
3.89 
12.92 
2.13 
16.81 
2.64 
19.65 
22.29 
1.54 
13.39 
.73 
14.93 
3.15 
30.44 
33.59 
J Straw Tips. 
RESULTS OF ANALYSIS OF TWENTY-SIX BRANDS OF CIGARETTES 
t Responds to the test for nitrates. 
* Cork Tips. 50 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
RESULTS OF ANALYSIS OF FIVE BRANDS OF CIGARS 
Brand 
Nicotine 
Xi 
cn 
< 
'o 
tn 
O 
X 
H20 Ins. Ash 
H C 1 Ins. Ash 
Total Ash 
0 
in 
O 
Xx 
. cn 
< 
Aik. H20 Ins. 
Ash 
Total Alkalinity- 
Ash 
Cobs 
1.48 
7.15 
14.88 
2.36 
22.03 
4.15 
28.85 
33.00 
Havana Plumes 
1.26 
5.83 
14.58 
4.27 
20.41 
3.60 
29.90 
33.50 
Perfecto Garcia 
1.53 
6.81 
14.50 
2.22 
21.30 
3.75 
25.00 
28.75 
ElVerso Havana 
1.60 
7.88 
13.78 
1.07 
21.66 
5.9 
25.75 
31.65 
1.73 
4.22 
22.12 
6.25 
26.34 
1.8 
33.6 
35.40 
Average 
1.52 
6.38 
15.97 
3.23 
22.35 
3.84 
28.62 
32.46 
RESULTS OF ANALYSIS OF CHEWING TOBACCO 
Mail Pouch 
1.04 
4.64 
12.55 
3.12 
17.18 
2.15 
21.85 
24.00 
Honest Scrap 
.98 
6.38 
10.84 
1.99 
17.22 
2.1 
20.55 
22.65 
Polar Bear 
1.03 
6.48 
9.72 
1.61 
16.20 
2.25 
18.25 
20.50 
Tiger 
1.50 
5.94 
6.35 
.66 
12.29 
2. 
12.7 
14.7 
Average 
1.14 
5.86 
9.86 
1.84 
15.72 
2.12 
18.34 
20.46 
RESULTS OF ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO LEAVES 
WITH MIDRIBS REMOVED 
Ohio Tobacco 
3.34 
8.42 
13.76 
2.33 
22.18 
4.80 
24.55 
29.35 
Virginia Tobacco 
3.38 
5.17 
6.79 
2.04 
11.96 
4.15 
9.95 
14.10 
Virginia Tobacco 
2.41 
3.97 
8.39 
2.49 
12.36 
1.55 
13.05 
14.60 
Average 
3.04 
5.85 
9.65 
2.29 
15.50 
3.50 
15.85 
19.35 
RESULTS OF ANALYSIS OF RIBS 
From Ohio Tobacco... 
1.48 
9.53 | 8.82 
.43 
18.35 
6.40 
18.20 
24.60 AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Financial Loss to Smokers 
How often will a man go through life without owning a house, 
when the money he spends on tobacco, if put on interest would be ample 
for the purchase of one? How many a family is cramped for the neces- 
saries of life because the husband or father will not give up his cigar, 
cigarette or chewing tobacco? And how many a man, reduced to 
beggary, holds on to his pipe! Millions of wives are obliged to sac- 
rifice their artistic tastes to this judgement. Music, books, pictures, 
excursions with the kiddies to the seashore or the mountains, a hundred 
and one little refinements and brighteners of the daily routing of life— 
all are swallowed up by this rapacious maw. No matter what self- 
denial the patient wife and mother may endure, provided the husband 
is not deprived of his smoke. 
Suppose a young lad, whose earnings are very small, spends five 
cents a day for cigarettes, instead of this let him invest his money 
at compound interest. The amount in ten years will be $240.54, in 
twenty years $671.30, in thirty years $1,442.77. How much have 
you got Mr. Smoker at 40 years of age? 
A gentleman at 40 remarked, “Twenty years ago, I figured up 
how much I was spending on cigarettes. I figured it out and stopped 
smoking and deposited the money thus saved when it had accumulated 
to three thousand dollars. I built a house with it and moved in with 
my family.” 
I have talked with many an inveterate smoker, many have said that 
they have spent in a life-time fifteen to twenty thousand dollars for 
tobacco and then asked me for the price of a bed and meal. 
The Cigarette Habit 
China has not hesitated to loose sixty million dollars Government 
income to bar opium out of that country. We should not hesitate to 
bar the use of tobacco by all in this country even at the cost of the 
revenue. It may surprise my readers to know that the Chinese physi- 
cally and morally are now the leaders of the world. 
I believe it would be a good move to force cigarette manufacturers 
to pay the expenses of maintaining the victims confined in State insti- 
tutions. 52 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
The same would hold good in the case of manufacturers and dis- 
pensers of liquors until the menace would be wiped out. 
In Germany the mischief done to growing boys has been found so 
great that the Government through its perfect police system forbids lads 
under sixteen from smoking in the street. The Swiss canton of Schaff- 
hausen issued a law some years ago prohibiting boys under fifteen from 
using tobacco on the streets or at home. 
On our streets we behold a vast and ever-increasing number of young 
Americans who evidently consider smoking essential to manliness and alas 
our police have no orders to forbid it. 
Boys sometimes at the age of six get their start, smoking, by pulling 
the silk from the corn, making cigarettes of wrapping paper, then play- 
ing, “fire in the gas house, boom, boom, boom.” At eight, by rolling 
up tea or ground coffee in papers and smoking them as cigarettes. At 
nine he begins to pick discarded butts out of the gutter. I have seen 
little fellows assembled matching the gathered cigarette stubs, one will 
always be the leader, telling the boys around him “if they would like 
to see smoke come out of my eyes.” Well, then he would say, “Put 
your hand on my chest.” While the innocent unsuspecting beginner 
looks for the miracle to happen his hand is touched with the fiery end 
of the cigarette and thus he is initiated. 
A boy of six who smokes, one of eight who chews tobacco, and a girl 
of nine who dips snuff, have been discovered by the United States Public 
Health Service. 
Next the boys will be offered a “drag” of the cigarette held 
between the fingers, of the leader who tells him to draw or inhale it 
away into his mouth, hold it, then exhale it, immediately it inflicts upon 
the future victim a nausea, retching, a vomiting, a headache, to which 
the horrors of seasickness are not to be compared. There is a blue 
upper lip, the livid ghastly hue of the face, the eye like that of a 
dead fish, the limbs limp and are powerless, a violent and painful 
vomiting, a symptom of death, which it would soon be in a reality if the 
unutterable horror of the suffering did not compel the poor fool to 
postpone the attempt to become a man in that way. Here endeth the 
first lesson. 
The silly boy resolves always that he will never touch tobacco 
again, and holds to his purpose until he has entirely recovered from the 
effects of his first lesson. Then he sees other youngsters like himself 
who have succeeded in conquering their disgust at tobacco. They AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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have done it. Why not he? They laugh at him, call him white- 
livered, sissy, mollycoddle. They assure him that the worst of it will 
be over in a few days, or at most in a few weeks. They strut through 
the streets or in other public places so grandly; they have such a manly 
way with them; there is such a grace in the style of holding a ciga- 
rette between finger and thumb, and striking off the ashes with the 
little finger. When they put the cigarette into their mouths again, it is 
with such a flourish, and their heads are thrown back, a little on one 
side, with so much self-consciousness, their eyes at the same moment 
cast slyly right and left to see who observes and admirers them. Ah! 
this is quite irresistable and our poor, foolish youngster goes off behind 
the barn, or into some other out-of-the-way place, and takes a second 
lesson. All this is carefully concealed from the parents. The parent 
suspecting something remarks: “Son, don’t let me catch you smoking a 
cigarette.” To which he replies, “No, father I won’t let you catch me.” 
So the tobacco pupil must go to bed before supper, under the pretence 
of a headache. Pretence? It is no sham. He has a racking, splitting 
headache with the return of dreadful nausea. In a few weeks, more or 
less, our youngster has learned to smoke cigarettes, maybe chew tobacco, 
as the case may be. 
All this painstaking and all this suffering voluntarily endured to make 
himself the slave of a terrible tyrant! “He little knows that a God more 
cunning than all the heathen divinities put together has bound him in 
his spell, and that he is in for a whole life of unspeakable abdomi- 
nations.” 
In my experiences among the makers in the tobacco industries, I 
have found that tobacco commences its dreadful work in the factories, 
the operatives inhaling its dust and absorbing its poison, so that it takes 
about four years to kill off a worker. 
Men have sometimes purposely disabled themselves for war by 
applying tobacco leaves to the pit of the arm, thus inducing alarming 
symptoms. 
A laborer having cleaned his corncob pipe with a knife, he neglected 
to wipe, afterward happened to cut his thumb. The wound was so 
slight that he thought nothing of it. A few hours later, the thumb grew 
painful and swelled, the inflmmation quickly spreading through the 
hand. All remedies proved ineffectual, he was taken to the hospital 
where the hand was amputated as the only chance of saving his life. 
A promising young man of fine constitution and correct habits, with 
a single exception of smoking, was found dead in his bed. Examina- 54 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
tion showed the blood in one lung completely black from disintegrating 
effects of tobacco. According to the doctors it was this which killed 
him. Such are the characteristics of tobacco, making its prescription 
permissible only to the extremest cases, and with the utmost caution yet 
this most powerful, most fatal of all drugs it is which has come to be 
regarded by thousands as a daily necessity, more to them than meat or 
drink, or any earthly food. 
The testimony on this point, both as to our own and foreign coun- 
tries, is clear and overwhelming. Statistics obtained from American 
and European institutions show that lads whose standing had been good 
before they began to smoke or chew were invariably found, after they 
became addicted to either habit to fall below the school average. 
A prominent tobacco manufacturer declares that nothing ever goes 
into tobacco so deleterious to the constitution as tobacco itself. Even 
the organ of the tobacco trade is forced to admit that “few things could 
be more pernicious for boys, growing youths, and persons of unformed 
constitution than the use of tobacco in any of its forms”—a truly 
significant confession. 
A gentleman sitting on the veranda of a Palm Beach Hotel said 
to a friend: “See that portly man yonder smoking his perfecto, well he 
stands the racket all right, smoking don’t kill him.” “No, but he is 
killing his wife. See her by his side, pale, shrivelled, sinking into the 
grave. So far as health is concerned, his wife might about as well have 
married a bale of tobacco. 
A farmer who, with a couple of friends smoked one evening in a 
room where a mere lad was asleep. When at midnight, the visitors 
withdrew, the farmer found the youth unconscious and insensible. All 
efforts for his restoration were fruitless. It was pronounced at the post 
mortem that he had died of congestion of the brain, caused by the respi- 
ration of tobacco smoke during sleep. 
“Thomas S. Blair, M. D., Neurologist, Harrisburgh, Pa., Hospital 
in Public Hygiene, writes: 
Cigarettes in America are a positive menace to health. Some un- 
principled manufacturers started making “doped” cigarettes, using liatris 
and other intoxicating weeds. This created a demand and the abomin- 
able American cigarette (sometimes blamed upon Turkey and Egypt) 
will increase the American mortality record for years to come. I have 
made up myself the best cigarettes possible of manufacture and given 
the same to some “cigarette fiends” under my care. I have yet to AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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find one of ths class of American degenerate who cared at all for an 
all-tobacco cigarette. I am well aware that certain manufacturers 
assert that their goods are wholly made of tobacco, good papers and 
a trifle of paste. But am also well aware that under the miscroscope 
these same cigarettes show leaf that bears no resemblance to any form 
of tobacco leaf I have ever examined. I cannot be induced to smoke 
an American cigarette and the few that I have tried in the past taste 
so abominably that it would take a great deal to convince me that 
they are made of undoped tobacco. 
Smoking tobacco made of cigar trimmings and of scrap is cheap 
and usually pure, but apt to contain inferior leaf. 
High class smoking tobacco is often pure and above reproach. 
Fine cut is largely adulterated and some smoking tobaccos contain 
Alfalfa, wood pulp, and various weeds. I have examined fourteen 
brands of “variously cut,” granulated and other goods of like make. 
While I do not care to designate brands, I am amazed at the degree 
of adulteration found in this class of goods. I have known three men 
who were not accustomed to smoking that sort of trash, but did smoke 
real tobacco in a pipe, to faint when first trying this class of goods. 
I have also noted that “cigarette fiends” like these cut smoking tobaccos. 
I am far from saying that all these goods are bad, but I firmly believe 
that most of them are. 
The reason I have taken up this matter here is because tobacco is 
not included in pure food legislation and could not be considered in the 
chapter devoted to pure food. There need to be some federal control 
of tobacco products and a drastic law imposing heavy penalties upon 
the adulteration of tobacco. So soon as some one asserts that tobacco 
is adulterated, a strenuous denial is made and even chemists’ certificates 
are published. I should like to see explained what is done with the 
great bales of certain weeds gathered in the South and shipped North. 
So much secrecy is concerned in the matter that no one engaged in the 
collection of these weeds even knows their names. I have found it impos- 
sible to get into certain portions of some tobacco factories, but some 
of the workmen will talk and either these men or the manufacturers 
at the same plants fail to understand the details of their own business 
or are expert “explainers.” And yet no one can really prove much. 
The chemical identification of tobacco presents difficulties, and the 
degree of adulteration of thoroughly incorporated and more or less 
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and no analysis worth much. It is a peculiar trade, and with plenty 
of honorable gentlemen engaged in it and a number of scoundrels and 
poisoners of our American youth.” 
I had occasion to visit the fair grounds of the big fair at Detroit, 
Michigan. I saw three lads twelve, thirteen and fifteen smoking a pipe 
and cigarettes. One was troubled with nervous trouble. I asked the 
youngest boy how long he was a smoker of cigarettes. His answer was 
five years. I explained the final result of a cigarette and he promised 
to quit the habit. 
From New York we learn that several leading physicians in that 
city “unanimously condemn cigarette smoking as one of the most vile 
and most destructive evils ever befell the youth of any country; “declar- 
ing that” its direct tendency is a deterioration of the race.” 
There are in the big cities professional “cigar-butt grubbers, “that 
is, old men, boys, and girls who scour the principal streets, and in front 
of theatres, opera houses and saloons for the stumps of half-burnt cigars 
and cigarettes. A ragged nine year old boy, barefooted, and bare- 
headed was brought before a city magistrate, charged by an officer with 
vagrancy, who stated that he had found the boy in front of the opera 
house picking up cigar stumps. A sack half full of stumps soaked and 
dirty were offered in evidence. The magistrate asked the boy what he 
did with them, and he answered, “Me take to de man where I live and 
he makes nicea cigarette and stogies and sell them six for ten cents.” 
His Satanic Majesty's Fuel for Drinking Appetites 
“Show me a drunkard who does not use tobacco, and I will show 
you a white blackbird,” said Horace Greeley. 
I visited many prisons in my travels, and have spoken to many 
convicts and ex-convicts all of whom blamed strong drink, a habit 
brought on by cigarettes as the cause of their downfall and incarseration. 
Physicians everywhere say when introduced into the system in small 
quantities by smoking, chewing, or snuffing, tobacco acts as a narcotic, 
and produces for the time a calm feeling of mind and body, a state of 
mild stupor and repose. The condition changes to one of nervous rest- 
lessness and a general feeling of muscular weakness when its habitual 
use is temporarily interrupted. The body and mind feel in need of stim- 
ulation and there is great danger that a resort to alcohol need be had. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
57 
The use of alcohol is frequently induced by that of tobacco, and I 
regard tobacco as having a worse effect than even liquor, and that more 
young men break down in body and mind and finally go astray as a 
result of smoking than of drinking, while the former often leads to the 
latter. In this view a multitude of medical men concur. I have been 
working in the tobacco industry and will briefly state how making 
up tobacco in some forms is carried on. 
When tobacco is brought into the factory it is first carefully sorted, 
then dipped in a solution of sugar and licorice, passed through flavor- 
rollers which press through the leaves. The surplus extract flows off 
the rollers back into the solution from whence it came. Then it is 
dried; after which it is put into long narrow boxes. As each layer is 
placed into the box they are sprinkled with New England or Jamacia 
Rum till the box is filled and covered, left standing until well soaked 
when it is worked up into Chewing Tobacco—cheroots and other forms. 
Chewing tobacco is injurious to health by depressing the nervous 
powers, by injuring the salivary glands, and creating an undue secretion 
of saliva. 
Ill-Advised and Enticing Advertisements 
“Say, son, do you know cigarettes are about the most ill-advised 
advertising appeal imaginable? Cigarette advertising should be ad- 
dressed to men. What should we think about it if liquor advertising 
were addressed to boys? The offense would be different only in 
degree.—Editor and Publisher, N. Y. 
When I was a boy I never saw the Journals or Bill Boards with 
so many misleading advertisements as you do now in reference to ciga- 
rettes. Such absurd statements which lead the young men of to-day 
to say, “Well it says the Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Judge, Artist, 
Editor, Engineer smoke them, why can’t I?” not knowing that it does 
not refer to boys but misleading in their wording and cartoons. 
The exhibits of cigarettes in the tobacconist windows and advertise- 
ments nowadays amazes the youth that he is led to believe that they are 
a health food instead of a poison. Such rot, as “absolutely pure,” “100 
per cent, pure, process patented,” “patent blend,” “expert blend,” “the 
better kind,” “wholesome tobacco,” “sensible cigarette,” the kind father 
smoked” and “gentleman’s smoke.” 
Think, boys, think—ten in a package and the good news is only 
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One advertisement reads as follows— The cigarette will 
not give you muscle or good digestion. That’s idiotic! It will not give 
you brains, put you into society or make you play a good game of 
golf. That's rot! 
Another the open letters to prominent gentlemen who have no way 
of refuting the insinuation that lead the youth to believe these great men 
are cigarette smokers. 
No wonder that in 1916 an increase of one billion more cigarettes 
is reported manufactured. 
An interesting investigation has recently been made by Roy Dimmitt, 
principal of Ensley High School, Birmingham, Alabama, assisted by 
Joseph Kantor, a pupil. 
Being convinced that cigarette smoking was detrimental to any grow- 
ing boy, Mr. Dimmitt made this investigation in his own school to 
obtain facts. 
Mr. Dimmitt said, “This experiment represents a series of investiga- 
tions to determine the relative standing in the formal school activities of 
boys in the Ensley High School who are, and of those who are not, 
addicted to the habit of cigarette smoking. 
“At the time this experiment was conducted there were 152 boys 
in school. Of this number 46 or about 30 per cent were cigarette 
smokers. Some had been smokers for several years with the habit firmly 
fixed; others were just beginning and had probably not yet experienced 
any evil effects from the habit. No distinction is made between these, 
however, and all are classed as ‘smokers.’ This may account to some 
extent for the closeness of the figures representing average grades. Those 
who do not use tobacco are herein classed as ‘Non-smokers.’ 
“For comparison the pupils are further divided into groups of rela- 
tive scholarship.’’ 
If smoking is bad for the athlete, and we believe it is, then it is 
all the more so for the growing boy of the non-athletic type or the one 
whose environment is such that he cannot or deos not get the proper 
out-of-door exercise. 
Group A consists of boys who passed in all subjects for the seme- 
ster unconditionally. 
Group B consists of those who failed in one and not more than 
two subjects. (Conditional.) 
Result of Principal of High School Investigation AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Group C consists of those who failed in more than two topics and 
hence failed of promotion. (Failed.) 
Group D consists of those who, for various reasons, withdrew from 
school before the end of the semester. (Withdrawn.) 
The data was assembled by Joseph Kantor, a pupil of Ensley High 
School. 
Data—Boys in school, 152; smokers, 46 (30.26 per cent.) ; non- 
smokers, 106. 
In Group A 
Smokers 
Per cent. 
26.1 
Non- 
Smokers 
Per cent. 
73.8 
Average days present (88 possible) 
81 
85 
Average days absent 
4 
0.89 
Average times tardy 
1.81 
0.9 
Average deportment grades 
91 
92 
Average English grades 
72 
73.4 
Average Latin grades 
72 
73 
Average History grades 
76 
78 
Average Mathematics grades 
78 
87 
Average Science grades 
79 
83 
Average credits received 
4.5 
4.8 
Croup A (Promoted Pupils) 
In Group B 
.... 51.3 
48.7 
Average days present (88 possible) 
. . . . 74 
82 
Average days absent 
. . . . 3.4 
2 
Average times tardy 
1.08 
0.76 
Average Deportment grades 
. . . . 87 
85 
Average English grades 
. . . . 61 
66 
Average Latin grades 
.... 52 
55 
Average History grades 
.... 63 
68 
Average Mathematics grades 
. . . . 69 
72 
Average Science grades 
. . . . 72 
79 
Average credits received 
3.2 
3.8 
Croup B (Conditioned Pupils) 
In school, 152 
30.26 
69.74 
In Group A (Promoted) 
26.1 
73.8 
In Group B (Conditioned) 
51.3 
48.7 
In Group C (Failed) 
62 
38 
In Group D (Withdrawn) 
68 
32 
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Conclusions: It is interesting to note that out of the 25 groups of 
data given above, 24 groups are decidedly in favor of the pupils who 
do not use cigarettes. This is true not only in scholarship, but in attend- 
ance, punctuality and deportment as well. 
The investigations failed to disclose whether the smoking of ciga- 
rettes caused the weakness in the pupils, or whether a general weakness 
from other sources caused pupils both to make low grades and to yield 
to the temptation of smoking. 
However, the investigations did disclose this fact, whatever may 
be the causes, that unquestionably the non-smokers so far as this school 
is concerned, are the more desirable citizens in point of efficiency. 
Dr. A. H. Sharpe, of the Cornell University Athletic Association, 
Ithaca, N. Y., writes: 
“It is known that cigarettes contain a poison and that this hinders 
the full physical development of the body so that even our college 
statistics show the smokers to have less lung capacity, to weigh less and 
to be shorter than the non-smokers. On all of our athletic teams, it is part 
of our training rules that smoking should be discontinued during the 
training period, showing that those in charge of boys in physical compe- 
tition realize that their charges might be handicapped by the influence of 
the poison; and yet if any boys could smoke with the least harmful 
results our “prep” school and college athletes could, because they are 
leading a life full of physical as well as mental activity and enjoy there- 
fore the best of health. 
Another reason why smoking is forbidden by athletic coaches is that 
for boys who have been accustomed to it, it necessitates the development 
of the moral quality of self-sacrifice, i. e., they must give up something 
they enjoy for the good of the team and a boy who is not willing to do 
that is not worth much to any team.” 
If a boy in his “teens” then has started to smoke and cares enough 
about his physical body, to say nothing of his nervous system, to give it 
a fair show he will cut out smoking until he has reached the age of 
twenty and then if he wants to smoke he is old enough to have developed 
enough sense to smoke in moderation and to have a body that is at least 
as well fitted to resist the poison as nature intended him to have. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Suicide by Cigarettes 
Mac Levy, of New York City the noted physiculturist and the 
successful upbuilder of broken down human bodies—writes:, 
Some persons at a time of mental derangement, commit suicide sud- 
denly by taking prussic acid. Some do so more slowly in other ways. 
The cigarette smoker commits suicide slowly, but none the less positively. 
The rapidity with which he hastens his death, depends upon his own con- 
stitution, and the extent to which he indulges. 
The person who is addicted to the excessive use of tobacco in any 
form, shortens his life from live to fifty years, according to circumstances. 
Moreover, the tobacco user cannot properly enjoy his shortened existence. 
He is liable to numerous diseases, including nervousness, irritability, 
insomnia, failing eyesight and many other troubles. His ability to earn 
money is restricted. He can do it fairly well during a period of his 
life while relying upon tobacco as a stimulant, or sedative; he could do 
it much better if he were to hold aloft from drugging himself with 
nicotine. 
All that I assert, and far more, is absolutely proven by unquestion- 
able authorities. Emminent medical men, sociologists, experts on insanity 
and other investigators, have made it perfectly clear through examination 
and research, that tobacco is a poison which is invariably harmful, and 
which is never beneficial. 
Coming now to those who are addicted to the habit, and who wish 
to rid themselves of it, I am compelled to express both my sympathy 
and congratulation. The rule of quitting the enslaving addiction by 
force of will power, is too much of a strain for the average individual— 
and he fails. Drug treatments for curing the tobacco habit are objection- 
able to many. The right remedy lies in a careful selection of food and 
in the manner of eating; also in proper forms of exercise, and in mental 
diversion. 
Facts About the Human Body 
The average number of teeth is 32.—Don’t spoil them with tobacco. 
The weight of the circulating blood is 29 lbs.—Tobacco users loose. 
The brain of a man exceeds twice that of any animal.—Don’t 
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The average weight of the brain of a man is 3 —Weight does 
not count if the brain is abnormal. 
Five hundred and forty pounds, or one hogshead and one and a 
quarter pints of blood pass through the heart in one hour.—If you are 
not a tobacco user it passes through easy. 
A man breathes about 20 times a minute.—Tobacco users can’t 
say this. i 
The heart sends nearly 10 lbs. of blood through the veins and 
arteries each beat, and makes four beats while we breathe once.—You 
can’t say so if you use tobacco. 
One hundred and seventy-five million cells are in the lungs, which 
would cover a surface thirty times greater than the human body.—How 
many of your cells are closed due to tobacco? 
The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 per minute; in manhood 
80; at sixty years 60. The pulse of females is more rapid than that of 
males.—Tobacco users’ pulse is irregular. 
Robert Morris, M. D., President of the American Theraputic 
Society writes: 
As a user of tobacco myself I have tried to make observations with- 
out prejudice relating to the cigarette question. 
Adults who use cigarettes to excess are commonly of the neurotic 
type, and the poisonous effect of combustion products of the paper, in 
addition to the profound effect of tobacco when inhaled, gives rise to 
a more or less morbid mental and physical condition. Boys are par- 
ticularly harmed by cigarettes. Cigarette smokers among boys are com- 
monly the ones with nervous instability in the first place. They repre- 
sent a defective group, broadly speaking. The strong normal boy with 
good physique has no craving for that “second personality” which goes 
with the influence of tobacco, alcohol or any of the so-called drugs. 
While cigarette smoking produces an injurious influence upon boys, I 
have assumed for some years that boys who smoke cigarettes were funda- 
mentally defective to begin with, and that they are not the ones who are 
likely to accomplish much in life. 
You will find my ideas on this subject expressed in a book entitled 
“Microbes and Men.” (I would advise reading this book.) AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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What would you think of any person that would propose—quite 
seriously—that you arrange your daily diet in such a way so as- to 
have something like fifty per cent, of it consist of paprika and salt, the 
balance to be made up of eggs, milk, bread, meat and other substantials 
of human nutrition? It is plain that such an extraordinary overdose of 
condiments would not be devoid per se of any nutritious qualities, but 
that it would ruin in a short time the digestive organs to such an extent 
as to make them incapable of assimilating the nutritious half of a diet 
so composed. 
If you think such a folly on the part of any human being so 
inherently unlikely to happen as to make the suppositious case hardly 
worth while your consideration, let me remind you, that all civilized 
mankind in general and all America in particular are eating in exactly 
in the case of such an individual as regards the bulk and price of stimu- 
lants consumed in proportion to actual food. There cannot be the 
slightest doubt that our national bill for intoxicating drinks and tobacco 
is at least equal in size, if not larger, than our annual bill for milk, 
meat, eggs, and vegetables consumed by a population of over one hun- 
dred million individuals. 
So please, consider this in trying to figure averages: Our national 
bill for tobacco must not be divided by one hundred millions, or seventy- 
five, or even fifty, to arrive at a true average of individual expenditure. 
Our women as a body, do not smoke—not yet, though the onmarch 
of feminism may yet claim for both sexes an equal share in all the stench- 
producing irritants procurable. Our babies, our infants, our school chil- 
dren do not smoke—not in America albeit school children consume large 
quantities of cigars in Spain, of cigarettes and chewing tobacco and 
snuff in the Southern States. On the whole, probably not more than 
twenty five million individuals are smoke-consumers in America. Yet 
these twenty five million suceed every ten years in burning to cinders an 
amount of potential prosperity sufficient to provide every indigent family 
in America with an independent landed estate and to improve every 
square inch of waste land between California and New York. Their 
effort to make American air unbreathable costs them more than the entire 
education of their children every year. And this habit of tobacco-smok- 
ing has succeeded, within a hundred and forty one years to engulf the 
whole nation. Our poets, painters and novelists are smokers, using stink- 
ing black pipes and the short briars formerly confined to the lower class, 
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it seems to be the indespensable symbol of poetry and the fine arts. The 
birth of the nation in 1776 did not stop the onmarch of tobacco. Dur- 
ing the one hundred and forty one years that have passed since the estab- 
lishment of the United States of America, the tobacco habit has eaten 
its way into nearly every household in America, including the houses of 
the clergy. So thoroughly has this notion of tobacco as an indespensable 
item of human consumption taken hold of the official mind, that even 
prisoners under the rules and regulations of some of our correctional 
institutions throughout the country are entitled to a weekly allowance 
of the weed, deprivation of their weekly tobacco ration being considered 
a heavy punishment for infraction of the prison rules. From the prisoner 
in his cell to the highest in authority in America, tobacco holds spell- 
bound wellnigh the complete sum total of our adult male population. 
The entire social air of America is saturated with tobacco fumes. 
They are recklessly blown about into the faces of women and children, 
into the nostrils of healthy non-smokers by smokers suffering from infec- 
tious diseases of the mouth, throat or lungs, or else by healthy smokers 
into the faces and breathing channels of delicate patients and reconvales- 
ants, with such total disregard for the comfort, health and lives of others 
as to put to shame our national reputation for politeness and considerate 
behaviour. Stop and consider for a moment what we are buying for 
millions of dollars per year. Americans above the age of fifteen are 
paying to the Government in revenue millions yearly for the priceless 
privilege of getting blear-eyed and defective of vision before they reach 
their thirty-fifth year. They are paying millions yearly for the propa- 
ganda and promotion of sore throats, gastric and pulmonary ailments, 
shaky nerves and cancer of the mouth. They pay this enarmous sum 
for the inestimable right to endanger the healthy, to poison the sick, to 
annoy women and children, to turn nearly every roofed and enclosed 
space in America into a depository of billions of disease germs. Well 
nigh every male adult in America pays, on an average, fifty dollars a 
year for an option on eye-diseases, nervous dypepsia, chronic bronchitis, 
cardiac failure and tremor of the limbs, all potentially to be brought 
about by the consumption of nicotine. Say that the average man smokes 
for twenty years before nicotine puts a lasting mark on him. What 
then? Why, he has paid a thousand dollars for the distinction of going 
about with water perpetually in his eyes, with a heart that beats six and 
skips three, with a voice too hoarse for command or entreaty and with 
muscles too flabbly for sustained action. Do you think the thousand 
dollars well invested? AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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SUPPLEMENT A 
CONSEQUENCES OF THE TOBACCO HABIT 
By Jacob Gutman, Phar. D., M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Chief of Chemical Department and Attending Physician of German Hospital, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Prof, of Materia Medica at College of Jersey City. 
In reference to your request for a statement of my opinion as to the 
use of tobacco, I regret that, because of lack of time, I am unable to 
give you a more detailed description of experiences derived during many 
years of practice. I have to limit my remarks, therefore, to only a 
few lines only. 
The smoking of cigarettes or cigars is not only unnecessary, but 
distinctly harmful. I would like to remove the illusion lingering among 
many smokers who believe the use of cigars to be less vicious than cig- 
arettes. This contention is wrong. It has been proved scientifically that 
the effect of the one is as injurious as the other. Another illusion exist- 
ing among smokers is that nicotine is destroyed during the combustion 
of tobacco. This is also untrue. On the contrary, during the combus- 
tion of the tobacco the nicotine is freed from its salt and is inhaled in 
pure form, and in addition also numerous other just as harmful and 
health destroying agents are formed, such as hydrocyanic acid, carbon 
monoxide, pyridin bases, etc. It is unnecessary to devote too much space 
to the chemistry and pharmacology of tobacco. Suffice it to say that 
it contains ingredients sufficient to affect the organism deleteriously. I 
shall mention only a few clinical facts regarding tobacco. 
1. A terribly depressing effect upon the brain and its development. 
2. A harmful effect upon the circulatory and digestive systems, and 
3. A degrading effect upon the physical and moral status of the 
individual. 
They show themselves particularly in the young. Children who have 
been unfortunate enough to have acquired this habit in their early youth 
are usually of diminished stature, depressed mentality, with little vigor, 
lacking in ambition and poor in accomplishments. I needn’t say anything 
about the moral depravity, the habit of lying, often stealing, and other 
such low actions on the part of the boys who acquire too early a smok- 
ing habit. 
Tobacco also causes a harmful effect upon the heart by producing 
an irregular action of this most vital organ, nervousness, fainting spells, 
etc. It also causes nasal catarrh, pharyngeal inflammation, bronchial 
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The harm done by this so widely indulged habit exceeds very 
much the benefit claimed by some people to have been derived from 
it. It may perhaps produce occasional quietude of mind and apparent 
invigoration, but, if so, it is only temporary and unusual. 
The correlation of stomach and intestinal ulcers with tobacco smok- 
ing is so well known as to need no mention. Perhaps 90 per cent of such 
ulcers in males are due in my experience to smoking. Hardening of the 
blood vessels, caused by the nicotine, is another consequence definitely 
established by scientists of the world. The occurrence of cancer of the 
tonge and epithelioma of the lips in smokers is another established fact. 
I have been paying attention to the habits of my patients, particularly 
smoking, during the many years of my practice, and have been enabled 
to observe the deleterious effects of such habits. I am glad to say that 
in a great many cases I was successful in eliminating the harmful effect 
by ridding the patients of the habit, very much to their gratitude. 
Hoping that these few remarks will more or less give you the 
requested information, and with best wishes of success in your wonderful 
and admirable work, I remain, Yours yery sincere,yi 
Jacob Gutman, M. D. 
SUPPLEMENT B 
A COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO 
By James the First, by the Grace of God 
King of England, etc. 
That the manifold abuses of this vile custome of Tobacco-taking, 
may the better be espied; It is fit, that first you enter into Considera- 
tion both of the first Original thereof, and likewise of the Reasons of 
the first entery thereof into this Country; for certainly as such Customs 
that have their first Institution, either from a godly, necessary, or 
honourable ground, and are first brought in by the means of some worthy, 
vertuous, and great Personage; are ever, and most justly holden in 
great and reverent estimation and account by all wise, vertuous and 
temperate Spirits: So should it by the contrary, justly bring a great 
Disgrace into that sort of Customs, which having their Original from 
base Corruption and Barbarity, do in like sort, make their first entry 
into a Country, by an inconsiderate and childish affection of Novelty, as AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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is the true case of the first Invention of Tobacco-taking, and of the 
first entry thereof amongst us. For Tobacco being a common Herb, 
which (though under divers names) grows almost everywhere, was first 
found out by some of the Barbarous Indians to be a Preservative, or 
Antidote against the Pox, a filthy Disease, whereunto these Barbarous 
People are (as all men Know) very much subject, what through the 
uncleanly and adust constitution of their Bodies, and what through the 
intemperate heat of their Climate. So that as from them, was first 
brought into Christendome, that most detesable Disease: So from them 
likewise was brought this use of Tobacco, as a stinking and unsavory 
Antidote for so corrupted and execrable a Malady; the stinking suffum- 
ingation hereof they yet use against that Disease, making so one Canker 
or Vermine to eat out another. 
And now, good Countrymen, let us (I pray you) consider what 
Honor or Policy can move us to imitate the barbarous and beastly 
Manners of the wild, godless and slavish Indians, especially in so vile 
and stinking a Custome. Shall we that disdain to imitate the Manners 
of our Neighbour France, (having the stile of the great Christian King- 
dome) and that cannot endure the Spirit of the Spaniards (their 
King being now comparable in largness of Dominions, to the greatest 
Emperour of Turkey; Shall we, I say, that have been so long civil 
and wealthy in Peace, famous and invincible in War, fortunate in both; 
We that have ever been able to Aid any of our Neighbours (but never 
deafed any of their Ears with any of our Supplications for assistance;) 
Shall we, I say, without blushing, abase ourselves so far, as to imitate 
these beastly Indians, Slaves to the Spaniards, Refuse to the World, 
and as yet Aliens from the holy Covenant of God? Why do we not 
as well imitate them in walking naked as they do, in preferring Glasses, 
Feathers and such toys, to Gold and precious Stones, as they do? Yea, 
why do we not deny God, and adore the Devil, as they do. 
Now to the corrupted baseness of the first use of this Tobacco, doth 
very well agree the foolish and groundless first Entry thereof into this 
Kingdom: It is not so long since the first Entry of this abuse amongst 
us here, as this present Age cannot but very well remember, both the 
first Author, and the form of the first Introduction of it against us. It 
was neither brought in by King, great Conqueror, nor learned Doctor 
of Physick. 
With the Report of a great Discovery for a Conquest, some two or 
three Savage men were brought in, together with this Savage Custome: 
But the pity is, the poor, wild, barbarous men died; but that vile bar- 
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to me, how a Custome springing from so vile a Ground, and brought 
in by a Father so generally hated, should be welcomed upon so slender 
a warrant: For if they that first put it in practice here, had remembered 
for what respect it was used by them from whence it came; I am sure 
they would have been loath to have taken so far the Imputation of that 
Disease upon them as they did, by using the Cure thereof; for Sanis non 
est opus medico, and Counter-Poysons are never used, but where Poyson 
is thought to proceed. 
But since it is true, that divers Customs slightly grounded, and with 
no better warrant entered in a Common-wealth, may yet in the use of 
them thereafter, prove both necessary and profitable; it is therefore next 
to. be examined, if there be not a full sympathy and true proportion 
between the base ground and foolish Entry, and the loathsome and hurt- 
ful use of this stinking Antidote. 
I am now therefore heartily to pray you to consider, first upon what 
false and erroneous grounds you have first built the general good liking 
thereof; and next, what Sins toward God, and foolish Vanities before 
the World, you commit in the detestable use of it. 
As for those deceitful grounds that have specially moved you to take 
a good and great conceit thereof: I shall content myself to examine 
here onely four of the Principals of them, two founded upon the 
Theorick of a deceivable appearance of Reason, and too of them upon 
the mistaken practick of general Experience. 
First, It is thought by you a sure Aphorisme in the Physick; That 
the brains of all men being naturally cold and wet, all dry and hot things 
should be good for them, of which nature this stinking suffumigation is, 
and therefore of good use to them, of this Argument both the Proposi- 
tion and the Assumption are false, and so the Conclusion cannot but be 
void of itself: For as to the Proposition, That because the Brains are 
cold and moist, therefore things that are hot and dry are best for them; 
it is an inept Consequence: For man being compound of the four 
Complexions (whose Fathers are the four Elements) although there be 
a mixture of them all, in all the parts of his body, yet must the divers 
parts of our Microcosme, or little World within ourselves, be diversly 
more inclined, some to one, some to another Complexion, according to 
the diversity of their uses; that of these Discords a perfect Harmony 
may be made up for the maintenance of the whole Body. 
The application then of a thing of a contrary nature to any of these 
parts, is to interrupt them of their due function, and by consequence AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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hurtful to the health of the whole Body; as if a man, because the Liver 
is as the fountain of Bloud, and, as it were, an Oven to the Stomach, 
would therefore apply and wear close upon his Liver and Stomach a 
Cake of Lead, he might within a very short time (I hope) be sustained 
very good cheap at an Ordinary, besides the clearing of his Conscience 
from that deadly sin of Gluttony: And as if because the Heart is full 
of vital Spirits and in perpetual motion; a man would therefore lay a 
heavy pound stone on his Breast, for staying and holding down that 
wanton Palpitation; I doubt not but his Breast would be more bruised 
with the weight thereof, then the Heart would be comforted with such 
a disagreeable and contrarious Cure. And even so it is with the Brains; 
for if a man because the Brains are cold and humide, would therefore 
use inwardly be smells, or outwardly by application, things of hot and 
dry quality; all the gain that he could make thereof, would onely be 
to put himself in great forwardness for running mad, by over-watching 
himself; the coldness and moisture of our Brains being the onely ordinary 
means that procure our Sleep and Rest. Indeed, I do not deny, that 
when it falls out that any of these, or any part of our Body, grows 
to be distempered, and to tend to an extremity beyond the compass of 
Nature temperate mixture, that in that case Cures of contrary qualities 
to the Intemperate inclination of that part being wisely prepared, and 
discreetly ministered, may be both necessary and helpful for strengthen- 
ing and assisting Nature in the expulsion of he Enemies; for this is the 
true definition of all profitable Physick. 
But first, These Cures ought not be used, but where there is need 
of them; the contrary whereof is daily practised in this general use of 
Tobacco, by all sorts and Complexions of people. 
And next, I deny the m'nor of this Argument, as I have already 
said, in regard that this Tobacco is not simply of a dry and hot quality, 
but rather hath a certain venomous faculty joyned with the heat thereof, 
which makes it have an Antipathy against Nature, as by the hateful 
smell thereof doth well appear; for the Nose being the proper Organ 
and Convoy of the sense of smelling to the Brains, which are the onely 
fountain of that sense, doth ever serve us for an infallible witness, 
whether that Odour which we smell be healthful or hurtful to the Brain 
(except when it falls out that the sense itself is corrupted and abused, 
through some infirmity and distemper in the Brain:) And that the 
suffumigation thereof cannot have a drying quality, it needs no further 
probation, then that it is a smoke, all smoke and vapour being of itself 
Humide, as drawing near to the nature of the Air, and easie to be 
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meteors, which being bred of nothing else but of the vapors and exhala- 
tions sucked up by the Sun out of the Earth, the Sea and Waters; yet 
are the same smoky vapors turned and transformed into Rains, Snows, 
Dews, Hoar-Frosts, and such like watry meteors; as by the contrary, 
the rain Clouds are often transformed and evaporated in blustering 
Winds. 
The second Argument grounded on a shew of Reason, is, that this 
filthy Smoke, as well through the heat and strength thereof, as by a 
natural force and quality, is able and fit to purge both the Head and 
Stomach of Rheumes and Distillations, as experience teacheth by the 
spitting, and avoiding Flegm, immediately after the taking of it. But 
the fallacy of this Argument may easily appear, by my late proceeding 
Description of the meteors; for even as the smoky vapours sucked by the 
Sun, and stayed in the lowest and cold Region of the Air, are there 
contracted into Clouds, and turned into Rain, and such other watry 
meteors; So this stinking Smoke being sucked up by the Nose, and 
imprisoned in the cold and moist Brains, is by their cold and wet faculty 
turned and cast forth again in watry Distillations, and so are you made 
free, and purged of nothing, but that wherewith you wilfully burdened 
yourselves; and therefore are you no wiser in taking Tobacco for purg- 
ing you of Distillations, then if for preventing the Cholick, you would 
take all Kind of windy Meats and Drinks; and for preventing of the 
Stone, you would take all Kind of Meats and Drinks that would breed 
gravel in the Kidneys; and then when you were forced to avoid much 
wind out of your Stomach, and much gravel in your urine, that you 
should attribute the thank thereof to such nuorishments as breed those 
within you, that behoved either to be expelled by the force of Nature, 
or you to have burst at the broad side, as the Proverb is. 
As for the other two Reasons founded upon Experience; The first 
of which is, That the whole people would not have taken so general a 
good liking thereof, if they had not by experience found it very soveraign 
and good for them: For answer thereunto, How easily the minds of 
any people, wherewith God hath replenished this World, may be drawn 
to the foolish affectation of any Novelty, I leave it to the discreet Judg- 
ment of any man that is reasonable. 
Do we not daily see, that a man can no sooner bring over from 
beyond the Seas any new form of Apparel, but that he cannot be thought 
a man of Spirit, that would not presently imitate the same; a,pd so from 
hand to hand it spreads, till it be practised by all; not for any com- 
modity that is in it, but only because it is come to be the Fashion; for 
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is the corruption of envy bred in the Breast of every one, as we cannot 
be content, unless we imitate everything that our Fellows do, and so 
prove ourselves capable of everything whereof they are capable, like 
Apes, counterfeiting the Manners of others to our own destruction. For 
let one or two of the greatest Masters of Mathematics, in any of the 
two famous Universities, but constantly affirm any clear day, that they 
see some strange Apparition in the Skies; They will, I warrant you, be 
seconded by the greatest part of the Students in that Profession; So 
loath wile they be, to be thought inferiour to their Fellows either in depth 
of Knowledge or sharpness of Sight: and therefore the general good 
liking, and embracing of this foolish Custome, doth but onely proceed 
from that affectation of Novelty and pouplar Error, whereof I have 
already spoken. 
And the other Argument, drawn from a mistaken experience, is but 
the more praticular probation of this general, because it is alleged to be 
found true by proof. That by the taking of Tobacco, divers, and very 
many, do find themselves cured of divers Disease, as on the other part no 
man ever received harm thereby. In this Argument, there is first a great 
mistaking, and next a monstrous absurdity; for is it not a very great 
mistaking, to take non causam pro causa, as they say in the Logicks; 
because peradventure when a sick man hath had his Disease at the 
heighth, he hath at that instant taken Tobacco, and afterward his Dis- 
ease taking the natural course of Declining, and consequently the Patient 
of recovering his health, O then the Tobacco forsooth was the worker 
of that Miracle! beside that, it is a thing well known to all Physicians, 
That the apprehension and conceit of the Patient hath by awkening and 
uniting all natural efforts tending thereunto driven out both the devils 
of disease and tobacco. 
This having, as I trust, sufficienty answered the most principal 
Arguments that are used in defense of this vile custome, it rests onely to 
inform you, what Sins and Vanities you commit in the filthy abuse 
thereof: First, Are you not guilty of sinful and shameful lust, that 
although you be troubled with no Disease, but in perfect health, yet 
can you not be merry if you lack Tobacco, lusting after it as the chil- 
dren of Israel did in the Wilderness after Onails. Secondly, It is a 
branch of the sin of Drunkeness; for as the only delight that Drunkards 
take in Wine, is in the strength of the taste and the force of the fume 
that mounts up to the Brain, so are not those the only qualities that 
make Tobacco delectable to all the Lovers of it? And as no man likes 
strong heady drink the first day, so do not all takers of tobacco have 
first to overcome their loathing? Thirdly, my countrymen, is it not the 72 
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greatest sin of all, that by this continual vile costume you should grow 
so weak and effeminate as to be of no further service to your King 
and Country? 
Now how you are by this Custome disabled in your Goods, let 
the Gentry of this Land bear witness, some of them bestowing three, 
some four hundred pounds a year upon this precious Stink, which, I am 
sure, might be bestowed upon many far better Uses. 
And for the Vanities committed in this filthy Custome, is it not both 
great Vanity and Uncleanness, that at the Table, a place of Respect, 
of Cleanliness, of Modesty, men should not be ashamed to sit tossing 
Tobacco-pipes, and puffing the smoke of Tobacco one to another, mak- 
ing the filthy smoke and stink thereof to exhale athwart the Dishes, 
and infect the Air. Moreover, which is a great iniquity, and against all 
humanity, the Husband shall not be ashamed to reduce thereby his 
delicate Wife to that extremity, that either she must also corrupt her 
sweet Breath therewith, or else resolve to live in a perpetual stinking 
torment. 
Have you not reason then to be ashamed, and to forbear this filthy 
Novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received, by the custome 
thereof making yourselves to be wondered at by all foreign civil Nations, 
and by all Strangers that come among you, to be scorned and con- 
tempted; a custome loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful 
to the Brain, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black stinking fume 
thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the Pit that 
is bottomless. 
SUPPLEMENT C 
TOBACCO BATTERED, AND THE PIPES SHATTERED 
About their Ears that Idolize so Barbarous a Weed 
(An English “Broadside” of 1672.) 
Of all the plants which this earth’s bosom yields, 
In groves, glades, gardens, marshes, mountains, fields; 
None so pernicious to man’s life is known, 
As is Tobacco, saving hemp alone. 
Betwixt the two there seems great sympathy, AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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To ruinate poor Adam’s progeny; 
For in them both a strangling virtue note, 
And both of them do work upon the throat; 
Upon this point, we may this riddle bring: 
The subject hath more subjects than the King: 
For Don Tobacco hath an ampler Reign, 
Than Don Philippo, the great King of Spain, 
In whose Dominions for the most it grows, 
Nay, I must say, (oh horror to suppose!) 
Heathenish Tobacco (almost everywhere) 
In Christendom (Christ’s outward Kingdom here) 
Hath more Disciples than Christ hath, I fear, 
More suits, more service, bodies, souls and good, 
Than Christ that brought us with his precious blood: 
Oh great Tobacco, greater than great Khan, 
Great Turk, great Tartar, or great Tamerlan! 
If there be any Herb in any place, 
Most opposite to God’s good Herb of Grace, 
’Tis doubtless this; and this doth plainly prove it, 
That for the most, most graceless men do love it; 
Or rather, dote most on this withered weed, 
Themselves as withered in all gracious deed. 
SUPPLEMENT D 
HISTORICAL CURIOSITIES CONCERNING THE 
TOBACCO HABIT 
Gilbert Burnette, F. LL. 
In the year 1615 the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge found it neces- 
sary to proclaim that “No graduate, scholler, or student presume to take 
tobacco into St. Mary’s Church, upon pain of final expellinge the 
Universitie.” 
In 1651 the House of Commons considered the advisability of 
banishing tobacco from England. 
King Charles I. was opposed to smoking; and King Charles II. 
wrote a letter to the University of Cambridge forbidding the members 
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In the times of James I. the price of tobacco was eighteen shillings 
per pound, and was chiefly sold in the shops of apothecaries. 
Cromwell was an occasional smoker; many of the Puritans indulged 
in tobacco, and the following rhyme in “The Wits Recreation, 1650” 
proves how general smoking was in the Commonwealth period: 
Tobacco engages 
Both sexes, all ages, 
The poor, as well as the wealthy, 
From court to the cottage, 
From childhood to dotage, 
Both those that are sick and the healthy. 
It plainly appears, 
That in a few years, 
Tobacco more custom hath gained 
Than sack or than ale, 
Though they double the tale 
Of the times wherein they have reigned. 
At the time of the Great Plague in London, people came to believe 
that smoking tobacco was a sure preservative against the disease, and 
so women and even children were encouraged to smoke. In some 
schools, even at Eton College, the boys had lessons in smoking every 
morning. It is related that a certain Etonian was soundly wipped for 
not “smoaking” at his master’s bidding. 
It appears that the Quakers made a formal protest against tobacco 
smoking. Their aversion to it has continued up to the present, because 
they consider it contrary to the laws of the Creator for his children to 
depend upon a narcotic drug for peace of mind and comfort. 
The habit continued to spread during the regin of William III. 
It became so general among the members of the House of Commons 
that it became necessary to make a rule that no member was to take 
tobacco into the gallery or to the table sitting at Committees. 
In the time of Queen Anne the poorer classes had become habitual 
smokers, the average cost being one penny a day all the year round. 
From the time of Queen Elizabeth to that of Queen Anne the smoking 
of pipes had been considered a sign of gentility and a fashionable accom- 
plishment; but when the habit became general among the poor people, 
“the quality” became uneasy at the spectacle of the poor man doing the 
same as the rich, so they forsook their pipes and stopped smoking, and 
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When tobacco is finely powdered it is called snuff; the leaders of 
society began to fill their nostrils with snuff, and to enjoy the new 
sensation. 
The habits of the upper class were thus described in the year 1711 
by some writers in the Spectator: 
To such a height with these is fashion grown, 
They feed their very nostrils with a spoon 
Another writer complained of the handing round of the snuff-box 
in church and chapel. It appears that chewing was much in vogue 
in churches, for he adds, “Kneeling in church is prevented by the large 
amount of tobacco saliva ejected in all directions.” The smoking of 
cigars was introduced, into England by the military, who had learnt 
the habit in Spain, during the Peninsular War, while the habit of smok- 
ing cigarettes was acquired by our soldiers during the Crimean War. 
In the year 1 795, the Wesleyan Conference passed a rule, that “no 
preacher shall use tobacco for smoking, for chewing, or in snuff, unless 
it be prescribed by a physician.” In the year 1877, the Wesleyan 
Conference refused to rescind this rule. The rule is now ignored. At 
most of the Conferences smoking rooms are provided. The habit of 
smoking has been indulged in by a large number of the Bishops and 
Clergy of the Church of England. There are many of the Bishops 
and Clergy who do not smoke, but what a sad example a smoking 
clergyman sets the world. I presume they acquired the habit at the 
same time they were attending divinity lectures, and did it with the 
Knowledge, if not the sanction, of their tutors and professors. I cannot 
believe it is right for the authorities of our Universities to permit the 
undergraduates to acquire a habit which lowers the moral nature and 
lessens mental energy and bodily vigour. It would be better for a 
young man to be deprived of the advantages of a University than to 
run the risk of acquiring one of the worst habits of modern times. 
It is trully a difficult task to rouse this nation to the danger of this 
habit. Indeed the task is beyond the power of man, singly or in com- 
bination, but with God nothing is impossible. Our Lord’s orders to 
His disciples were simple: and pray? If we obey as a nation 
we shall conquor the habit and prosper as a nation, but if the nation 
continues in disobedience, smoking and slumbering, the nation will suffer. 
About the year 1880, the cigarette became the fashion, and was 
soon taken up by boys and by foolish women. The evil of juvenile 
smoking soon became so great as to cause alarm. In the year 1907, 76 
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the Legislature passed an Act rendering smoking illegal under the age 
of sixteen. In the year 1 909, I made inquiries of General Booth as to 
the regulations in the Salvation Army, and I received the following 
statement in reply: 
“Great Britain: 
Local officers 32,229 
Bandsmen 1 3,904 
Corps Cadets 5,038 
“Colonies and Foreign Countries— 
Local officers 24,457 
Bandsmen 7,208 
Corps Cadets 5,191 
“All these officers are total abstainers from alcohol and tobacco. 
(Signed) “THEODORE KlTCHING, 
"Lieut.-Col." 
If General Booth has authority to insist on all his officers and bands- 
men being abstainers from alcohol and tobacco, I wonder why the 
leaders of our own Church of England do not follow his excellent 
example. 
SUPPLEMENT E 
THE USE AND ABUSE OF TOBACCO 
Wm. Marsden, M. D., 
Fellow of the Medical Society of London 
I was asked a few days since by one of our ablest surgeons and 
most distinguished physicians, whether I had remarked the decided 
increase in the number of deaths from diseases of the brain since my 
coming into practice. Having admitted the proposition, my friend whose 
shrewdness and quickness of perception is characteristic, was disposed to 
assign as the principal cause the character and quality of the spirituous 
liquors so largely indulged in by all classes. My own experience and 
opinion, however, turn to another cause—the excessive use of tobacco, 
and had I not since laid my hand on Dr. Lizar‘s invaluable book, my 
own observation in the course of a long and extensive practice would 
have furnished me with proofs innumerable. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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For several years past the discussion of what has been called the 
“tobacco question” has engaged the attention of medical, as well as 
non-medical writers in Great Britain, and my erstwhile fellow-student, 
Mr. Solly, now a surgeon of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, has taken 
a prominent part in the discussion, and although the evils of excessive 
smoking prevail as estensively in Quebec as in Great Britain, the medi- 
cal profession, to which the public looks as the rational exponent of 
sound principles in relation to man’s health and physical habits, has 
hitherto been almost silent on the subject. If any medical man feels 
that by simply raising his voice he may be the means of saving the life, 
or preserving the health of a single fellow-being, who may be uncon- 
sciously shortening his days by indulging in what he calls an innocent 
pastime and luxury, he is culpably negligent if he remains silent. 
“The profession” says Mr. Solly, “have no idea of the ignorance of 
the public regarding the nature of tobacco. Even intelligent, well-edu- 
cated men stare in astonishment when you tell them tobacco is one of 
the most powerful poisons we possess. Now is this right? Has the 
medical profession done its duty? Ought we not, as a body, have told 
the public that of all our poisons, it is the most insidious, uncertain, and 
in full doses the most deadly? 
“Dr. Lizar enumerates the constitutional effects of tobacco by stat- 
ing that they are numerous and varied, consisting of giddiness, vomiting, 
dyspepsia, vitiated taste of the mouth, loose bowels, diseased liver, 
congestion of the brain, apoplexy, palsy, mania, loss of memory, blind- 
ness, deafness, nervousness, emasculation and cowardice.” 
Frightful as is this list of ills, I can from my own experience endorse 
its accuracy, and yet how large a number of our own profession are 
addicted to the vice, and how fatal must be the effect of their example 
upon the unthinking. 
Professor Laycock, of Edinburgh University, says in a most temper- 
ate paper in the Medical Gazette, “I have known many instances in 
which I was unable to prove that the ordinary use of tobacco did any 
harm; I have known many more in which I could prove that it did do 
harm; and I have not known any good from it that might not have 
been obtained by other less objectionable means.” 
I will only make a few more extracts from Dr. Lizar’s paper, in 
order to support the view I have enunciated that tobacco is the fruitful 
source of paralytic affections: 
“Congestion of the brain, which is a frequent precursor of palsy, 
occurs almost only in those much addicted to smoking, with whom a 78 
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cigar is never out of the mouth. It is denoted by headache, want of 
sleep, or rather restless nights, and occasional flushing of the countenance. 
Apoplexy has been noticed by several authors supervening the smoking 
of tobacco, also the immoderate use of snuff. The form of palsy 
produced by excessive smoking is almost always hemiplegia, and is usu- 
ally incurable. Mania is a fearful result of the excessive use of tobacco, 
two cases of which I have witnessed. I have also to mention that a 
gentleman called on me and thanked me for my observations on tobacco, 
and related to me with deep emotion what occured in his own family 
from smoking tobacco. Two amiable younger brothers had gone 
deranged and committed suicide. 
“I lately visited a gentleman in a lunatic asylum ‘says Dr. Lizars,’ 
labouring under general paralysis and his mind becoming idiotic. On 
corresponding with his former medical attendant I understand that his 
habits were moderate as to drink, but that he smoked to excess.” 
Dr. Webster cites among the causes of mental diseases the great 
use of tobacco, and he supports this opinion by a reference to the 
statistics of insanity in Germany. 
‘‘Loss of memory,” says Dr. Lizars, ‘‘takes place in an extraordinary 
degree in the smoker, much more so than in the drunkard.” 
A valued and talented medical friend whose pipe is scarcely out of 
his mouth when at leisure, is an instance of the foregoing condition, and 
who, besides, suffers from fearful neuralgic attacks of the head; but 
alas, I have failed to convince him that tobacco is in any way the cause. 
To all who have suffered or may be suffering under the pernicious 
influence of tobacco, I cannot give any more useful- or proper advice 
than is contained in the words of Dr. Lizar: “Throw away your tobacco 
forever.” 
I think it should greatly aid me in my task, if I here insert an 
extract from ‘‘Essays by the late Sir Morell Makenzie, M. D.” The 
MSS. came to the hands of his brother, by whom they were published 
in 1898. 
There can be no doubt but that the professional opinions of that 
eminent throat specialist must have very great weight in the minds 
of my readers, especially so if they will consider the fact, that altogether 
Sir Morell was a smoker, yet in his “Essay on Tobacco,” with the whole 
force of his professional talent, he gave his unbiased opinion to the 
world as to the detrimental effects of the tobacco habit. Surely these 
opinions are worth credence, and must inevitably carry conviction to all 
reasonable minds. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Sir Morell Makenzie wrote thus: “Medical men who have eyes 
for such things, can see the baneful effects of immoderate smoking writ 
large on nearly every part of the mucous membrane of the throat. It 
is often the abuse of tobacco that is at the bottom of chronic congestion 
or other deviations from the normal condition of the throat which are 
put down to other causes. 
“The effects of tobacco on the body are both general and local, 
it acts on the nervous centres and on the heart, as well as on the parts 
with which the smoke or the juice comes immediately in contact. It 
usually finds expression in what is vaguely called ‘nervousness,’ the pulse 
becomes flurried, and the muscles more or less relaxed and unsteady: 
this is why smoking is so strictly forbidden to men training for athletic 
feats. An occasional pipe or cigar would probably not be hurtful, but 
trainers are unamious in forbidding tobacco in any form. The cause 
of their attitude in this matter is, no doubt, the fear that modera- 
tion might lead to excess, and convinced as I am of the deplorable 
effects of over-indulgence in smoking on steadiness and percision of 
muscular movement, I cannot say that I feel surprised at the apprehension 
of trainers. 
“So marked is the effect of tobacco in relaxing the whole of the 
muscular system, that before the days of chloroform it was employed 
in surgical operation, in which it was necessary that the muscles should 
be perfectly limp. It will thus be readily understood that under the 
influence of a drug possessing these properties, the delicate adjustments 
of the complicated vocal machinery are to some extent disordered, and 
the voice is out of tune and harsh. Something analogous to what takes 
place in the eyes as the result of the abuse of tobacco occurs in the 
larynx, or in the part of the brain which governs the movement of that 
organ. Occulists are familiar with tobacco ‘ambylopia’ that is dimness 
of sight, due to what may be called figuratively, blurring of the retina 
by tobacco smoke. 
“The tongue often suffers severely from the effects of tobacco. 
Small excoriations, blisters, superficial inflammation, and white patches 
are formed on the surface of the organ, and a permanently unhealthy 
condition is induced, which in those predisposed to cancer is apt, under 
the influence of advancing age, or as the result of prolonged vocal irrita- 
tion, to lead to the development of that disease. The same observation 
applies to the supeficial ulceration which effects the sides of the root 
of the tongue. In this situation there are a number of delicate projec- 
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become inflamed when exposed to irritation. It is in this situation that 
cancer of the tongue is exceedingly apt to commence. 
“Smoking at times causes chronic inflammation of the lips, which 
gives rise to cracks which are always very troublesome and not infre- 
quently end in deadly disease. 
“The effects of smoking on the throat, when the habit has not 
been too long indulged in, can as a rule, be easily cured by the simple 
remedy of discontinuing the practice which engendered them. In consid- 
ering the evils produced by smoking, it should be borne in mind that there 
are two bad qualities in the fumes of tobacco: the one is the poisonous 
nicotine, and the other is the high temperature of the burning tobacco. 
The Oriental hookab, in which the smoke is cooled by being passed 
through water before reaching the mouth, is probably the least harmful 
form of indulgence in tobacco; and the cigarette, which is so much in 
vogue nowadays, is most certainly the worst. It owes this bad eminence 
to the very mildness of its action, people being tempted to smoke all 
day long, and easily accustoming themselves to inhale the fumes into 
their lungs, and thus saturating their lungs with poison. 
“To conclude with a little practical advice: let him who wishes to 
keep in the perfect way, refrain from inhaling smoke and take it as an 
axiom, that the man in whom tobacco increases the flow of saliva to 
any marked degree is not intended by nature to smoke. 
SUPPLEMENT F 
TABLES OF COMPARISON BETWEEN SMOKERS AND 
NON-SMOKERS IN BIRTHRATES 
H. H. Tidswell, M. D. 
I shall here review and compare two tabular abstracts based upon 
the complete genealogical histories of 38 fathers non-smokers and 37 
fathers smokers. 
Table 1: Conception 
Miscarriages 
394 
Still-born 
210 
Live-born 
7368 
Total 
7972 
Class 1 AND HABIT CONQUERED 
81 
Class 2 
Miscarriages 
1035 
Still-born : .. 
263 
Live-born 
6859 
Total 
8157 
This table shows that the wives of the smokers had 1 85 more con- 
ceptions than the wives of the non-smokers, but that owing to a higher 
rate of mortality in the foetuses, they had a lower birthrate of mature 
infants, the deficiency being 509 infants. If virility is defined as the 
power of procreating children, then this Table clearly indicates that 
the men in Class 2 possessed less virility than Class 1. The number of 
live-born children is regarded as the proof of virility. Class 1 had the 
higher birthrate, therefore it is correct to assume that the class of smokers 
had lost some degree of virility. This Table clearly shows that the 
low birthrate among the wives of the smokers was not due to lack of 
fertility among the wives, as they had a larger number of conceptions 
than the wives of the non-smokers. 
Table II: Loss of Fcetal Lives 
Abortions 
394 
Still-born 
210 
* Total 
604 
Class / 
Class 2 
Abortions 
1035 
Still-born 
263 
Total 
1298 
Excess in Class 2 
694 
This table proves that the wives of the non-smokers had a loss of 
foetal lives equal to a rate of 604 in 1,000 wives; and that the wives 
of smokers had a loss of foetal lives equal to a rate of 1 298 in 1000 
wives. How can the excess among the latter be explained? 
The wives in Class 2 were as healthy as those in Class 1 before 
marriage; they were on a par with the wives in Class 1, in all respects 
but one; they were exposed to the poison of tobacco, directly and 
indirectly, being the wives of smokers. None of the husbands in Class 
2 were in any respect inferior to those in Class 1, except as a conse- 
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The Medical and also the Lay reader may perhaps be astonished 
that I should attribute the great excess of fcetal mortality in Class 2 
as the direct consequence of the action of tobacco on the developing 
ovum; this excess is so very large that it indicates a large amount of 
poison in this Class 2. We can only speculate as to the immediate 
cause of an ovum. If in Class 1 maternal influences caused a loss of 
604 foetal lives, it is reasonable to assume that similar influences might 
also cause a similar fatal death-rate among the wives of smokers. 
If then assume that the wives of Class 2 were responsible for the 
deaths of 604 foetuses and no more, I must assume that the fathers were 
responsible for the balance of excess, viz. 694. This calculation may 
appear to be speculative, but it is not really so. The father must pro- 
tect the wife from exposure to sewer gas, from all poisonous vapors, 
and especially from an atmosphere of tobacco smoke. We are dealing 
here not with theories, but with facts, and the facts indisputably show, 
that the wives of smokers had twice as many dead foetuses as the 
wives of non-smokers. 
(Extract from an article by Right Cross appeared in the New York 
Evening Journal, January 4th, 1917.) 
Drink and Tobacco Only Opponents Les Darcy Fears; Bars Them 
“The two most deadly opponents which any fighter can encounter 
are the drink and smoke habitsdeclared Les Darcy, the sensational 
Australian middle and heavyweight champion in summing up the many 
factors which have contributed to his meteroic rise to fame in the fistic 
world. “More ring champions have sacrificed their laurel wreaths in 
their endeavors to best these two habits than through any other cause. 
You cannot gain the decision over either. Both have long strings of 
successive K. O.’s to their credit. 
“The fighter or athlete who thinks his constitution too strong to 
give way before the ravages of drink and smoke is the prize dunce of 
the day. I have witnessed the results of these habits too often not to 
know that they are fatal. The first lesson that every athlete should 
cram into his top piece is to refrain from his first drink and first smoke. 
If he can get this important lesson firmly entrenched in his gray matter, 
his battle to the foremost ranks of his profession will be more than 
half won. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
83 
“The fact that I have yet to take my first drink and first smoke is, 
to my way of thinking, the greatest accomplishment of my ring career. 
It has contributed more to my success than anything else. I am satisiied 
that had I been a drinker or smoker, I never would have been able to 
reach the position I to-day occupy in the fistic world. No could I have 
gained sufficient courage to invade your shores and challenge your best 
fighters. I hope that the young men of your country will pay heed 
to these remarks of mine and forever push the habits of drink and smoke 
into the discard. 
“It should not be necessary to go into details as to the bad effects 
of drink. There are undoubtedly enough examples in this country to 
demonstrate the curse of that poison. As to smoking it strikes me as 
being a very bad trait, for it fills the lungs with smoke and has a bad 
effect on breathing. Take an athlete who is addicted to smoking. He 
always breathes heavier than one who has never touched the weed. 
Also many cancerous growths result from an over-indulgence in smok- 
ing. An athlete who uses the weed possesses only half the staying 
powers of his brother who abstains. 
“Another thing, the person who drinks or smokes never receives his 
correct proportion of sleep and rest. Take the heavy drinker or smoker 
and you will find the nervous uncomfortable sleeper. In fact, it is only 
after the brain of such a drinker or smoker is stupified by the effects 
of an over-dose of drinking or smoking that he is enabled to sleep at all. 
“Without this extra portion of his poisonous dope the heavy drinker 
or smoker finds it almost a hopeless task to get the necessary amount of 
sleep to refresh his brain and body. Nothing is so necessary to good 
health as sleep. A person should take as least eight hours’ rest a day. 
A few hours extra is never a bad prescription for anyone. I make it 
a steadfast rule to obtain at least eight hours of sleep. 
Old King Cigarette, King Nicotine Will Be Given a Decent Burial 
They are usually dressed in white, altho in some circles they are 
affect brown. Sometimes they were decorated with gold, and sometimes 
with cork. At times they have been known to be heavily perfumed. 
When King Cigarette blinked at you with his one red eye, partially 
hidden, usually, under flecks of grey, he lulled you into a feeling of 84 
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restfulness, and he shaped fantastic figures in your vision. At the same 
time, he burned out your lungs, discolored your fingers, and shattered 
your nerves. 
You remember them. Well, the poor little vagabonds are dead. 
They have been losing strength, day by day, everywhere they are pass- 
ing out entirely, and they are dead and dying practically without friends. 
You will realize that you are about to attend the obsequeies of old King 
Cigarette and King Nicotine. 
Two Women---Both Blind 
I PLEASE 
I HELP 
The 
blind 
FflOM THE vToorkVil. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
85 
The Prize Method of Curing the Effects of Excessive Smoking 
“How do you treat the effects of excessive smoking?” was the ques- 
tion the New York Medical Journal put to physicians recently, with an 
offer of a $25 prize for the best answer. The prize was won by Dr. 
Thomas W. Jenkins of Albany, N. Y., with an essay substantially as 
follows: 
Considering the large quantities of tobacco used, very little harm 
results, and care should be taken not to incriminate tobacco when the 
troubles under observation may be due to other causes. It is especially 
perilous to order middle-aged smokers to refrain from tobacco in the 
hope of curing heart conditions. 
Tobacco may produce nervousness, local paralysis, gout, rehuma- 
tism, dyspepsia, general increased blood pressure and a dryness of the 
throat that leads to excessive drinking. 
The acute symptoms are nausea, vomiting, purging, pallor, giddiness, 
depression, tremors, contracted pupils and clonic convulsions. The treat- 
ment for such cases is the withdrawal of tobacco, and dram doses of 
aromatic spirits of ammonia in plenty of water, along with hypodermic 
injections of caffein and nitroglycerin. 
Chronic troubles due to long continued excess are easily remedied 
when the smoker will give up tobacco. But when he won’t he must be 
persuaded to use a long stemmed Turkish pipe in which the smoke passes 
through water. His cigars should be long and thick and be thrown 
away when half consumed. He should be adivsed to smoke only after 
each meal and just before going to bed and the after-meal smoke should 
be postponed as long as possible. He should drink much water. 
Dr. John Aikman of Rochester read a paper before the Medical 
Society of Monroe Coutny, on the effects of smoking on the circulation 
of the blood, in which he described tests made by him on twenty-seven 
men between sixteen and thirty-one years of age. Each of them sat 
quietly in a chair chatting about ordinary topics and smoking a Turkish 
cigarette, the same brand being used in all the cases. Dr. Aikman kept 
a record of the pulse before, during, and after the smoke. 
Sixteen out of twenty-seven subjects showed an increase of more than 
eight pulse beats a minute. All except four gave an increase and two 
of the four had an abnormally high pulse at the start, while the other 86 
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two had smoked less than an hour before. The average increase was 
fourteen beats. In ten cases the regular pulse became irregular. In 
several the effect was present for fifteen minutes at least after smoking 
ceased. 
Dr. Aikman asks if it may not be possible that the general increase 
of diseases of the circulartory system which is so noticeable to-day may 
not be in part attributable to the disturbances of the circulation produced 
by smoking frequently repeated daily for years. 
The Habit Conquered 
The best substitute known is chamomile tea. (Ten cents worth.) 
From the dried flowers, make a tea as the ordinary tea. Use it 
every day at your meals and at night it gives quick relief and is good 
for all forms of nervousness. A little box of pulverized ginger should 
be carried in the vest pocket so that you can take a pinch once in a 
while, or when you smell tobacco smoke or have a craving to smoke. 
When dining with friends and you have a longing for a cigar just take 
an oyster on the half shell, sprinkle it with a little red pepper and swal- 
low. The craving will instantly be removed. Bread or cheese similarly 
seasoned will do as well. 
Obtain ten cents worth of each of the following: 
Genetian, sassafras, lovage, licorice flag and marshmallow. Mix 
these together, use them to chew on and the saliva will appease your 
palate and stomach. Sweet fern, in a clean clay pipe may be smoked 
only when you think you cannot do without a smoke. A warm bath for 
fourteen consecutive nights as follows: Bath tub half full of luke-warm 
water; wrap your body in a sheet very tight; lie in the warm water, 
turn on hot water until very hot; stay in the water for 20 minutes (use 
no soap), allow the water to run out, then arise; allow the water to 
drip off. While standing, remove sheet and wipe body dry, then take 
chamomile tea and retire under light cover. You will get away from 
the old tobacco habit and say far thee well Mr. Nicotine. 
I have received thousands of letters of commendation from men and 
boys, whom this helped to conquer the tobacco habit, and I hope you, 
my dear reader, will pass this good work on to those who may need it, 
so as we can win our battle for a cleaner and healthier generation. 
I thank you. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
87 
Value of Good, Sound Health. 
Health consists in the normal and vigorous action of all the physical 
functions and organs; disease in their feeble, imperfect, or abnormal 
action; and death in their suspension. Life and health are proportionate 
to each other. Viewed in any and all aspects, Health is life. 
Its value, therefore, equals that of all else. It is our richest pos- 
session, because it alone imparts the greatest attainable zest and relish 
to whatever we posses. Without it, what can man, woman, child, or 
even bird or beast do, become, or enjoy? Other things being equal, our 
capacities for accomplishing and enjoying are proportionate to its vigor, 
but become enfeebled as it declines. No attainable amount of wealth, 
honor, learning, or anything else whatever can make us happy any further 
than we have health with which to enjoy them; and the value of all we 
possess diminishes in proportion as we become sickly. With how keen 
a zest those in health relish delicious foods and fruits, which only nauseate 
those whose diseases have destroyed their appetite. The rich invalid is 
pitiably poor, because he cannot enjoy his possessions; while all who are 
healthy are therefore rich, because their fund of life turns all surround- 
ings into means of enjoyment. 
The healthy servant is richer, because happier than his feeble million- 
aire master, and the robust peasant, than his infirm king. Those who 
have always enjoyed health, little realize its value. As we admeasure 
time only by its loss, so none can duly prize the worth of health till it 
declines. Brought to the gates of death, our last hour come, what 
would we give, what not give, for another year of life and health, with 
all their plesaures! 
Millions would be cheap, because health is so immeasurable, more 
promotive of happiness, that only measure of all values, than riches, than 
all else combined. To all, in all conditions, it is life’s pearl of greatest 
price! 
This trifling with health, so almost universal, how consummately 
foolish? Esau’s folly was wisdom in comparison with theirs who, in 
sheer carlessness, exchange a lifetime of vigor for one of feebleness. 88 
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And some barter away life itself for some momentary indulgence! A 
foolish ambition breaks down constitutions by thousands. Unwilling to 
be outdone, they work at the top of their strength just as long as they 
can stand, or overheat themselves, or drink cold water while too warm, 
or in one way or another bring on in a day or week complaints which 
debilitate them for life, and hurry them into premature graves! 
A good staminate constitution therefore, becomes about as valuable 
as that life it manifests. Since good eyes are as valuable as are all 
the knowledge and happiness they impart, and thus of all the other indi- 
vidual organs, of course the value of a good body over a poor one is 
measured by all the increased powers to enjoy and accomplish what it 
gives. By over-driving, or foundering, or injuring a splendid horse, you 
take his zest and snap out of him ever after. Before he needed no whip, 
after, he performs much less nnth one than before without. That one 
injury diminished his power to accomplish one-half or two-thirds, and 
made him an old horse in constitution, though young in years. So when 
your constitution is once sapped, farewell to half or more of your life 
zest, capacities, and enjoyment! An ambitious youth, just to finish 
cradling before his neighbor, worked to complete exhaustion, and finished 
a few hours the soonest; but in doing so lamed his hip and side for life; 
contracted a two months’ sickness, from which he barely recovered with 
his life, but with a broken down constitution, so that he has since been 
able to do but little work, and many kinds not at all; besides suffering 
perpetual pain those twenty-five years since! That single day’s work did 
him vastly more injury than any fortune could ever do him good; because 
it inflicted on him much more pain than any amount of money could ever 
give him pleasure. It weakened all his capacities to do and enjoy, 
besides enhancing all his sufferings, for life, which it will shorten many 
years. He received no extra pay for this destruction of health, yet sac- 
rificed an incalculable amount of happiness and life on the altar of a 
foolish emulation! But like instances of like folly—folly? the worst 
form of wickedness—are common. 
Why reader of twenty-five, if not of twenty, by some abuse of health, 
has not impared it forever! How many, in how many ways, wickedly 
squander it, without receiving any return for this choicest of all our life 
possessions! AND HABIT CONQUERED 
89 
A prime body is a richer treasure than weakly monarchs possess. 
Business men, speculators for a rise, know yea that a splendid physique 
is the finest piece of property you will ever own, while injuring it will 
entail on you a loss far greater than any other ever can be. This year 
you have added twenty thousand dollars to your coffers, but in doing 
so have worn in on your organism, and thereby lost more than twice 
twenty thousand dollars worth of life-force. A little animal power is 
more valuable than dollars can admeasure, and yet men and women treat 
it as they do sole leather—to be worn out by all manner of hard usage, 
and worth no more than old boots. 
The great life art is preserving and improving a good organism, if 
we have one, an recuperating and reinvigorating whatever we do have, 
be it more or less, and should take precedence over every other life end 
and pleasure. Stop instantly whatever interfere with it, and do anything, 
everything to augment it. 
Health is a fortune at interest, the income from which, economically 
used, will support you; but it cannot be squandered at any period through 
life, without being brought into final account, and shortening and enfeebl- 
ing it in exact proportion. Spending foolishly draws on principal, and 
every draft, great and little, must be reckoned into that last settlement 
which every draft hastens. As the faster you draw the sooner you 
exhaust it; so all over-eating, over-working, loss of sleep, improper habits, 
(tobacco using is one) colds, and whatever injures health, (and alcohol 
does) is a draft on the constitution, cashed at a hundred per cent, dis- 
count, till, when your life-fund is expended, but not till then, death sum- 
mons you to your final reckoning. Every abuse of health enfeebles it 
for life, and hastens its close. 
Ho! O youth! ho all, be entreated to consider the infinite value of 
health, and the proportionate importance of its preservation, before you 
learn its worth by its impairment. Compared with it, millions are trash. 
Even all else without it is dross. Gain whatever you may by impairing 
it, you are an infinite loser; but lose what won you may in its preserva- 
tion or restoration, you gain more than by acquiring fortunes, or even 
crowns, and worlds! And how mean one feels and acts when feeble! 90 
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Sickness is costly. As a pecuniary investment, nothing pays the right 
way like health nor the wrong like disease, which both stops your wages, 
if you labor; or if in business, takes you from it and compels you to 
intrust it to others, always disastrous; besides creating heavy expenses for 
doctors, nurses, medicines, and a thousand incidentals. How many, now 
poor, would have been rich, if they and their families had always 
been well! 
Sickness is painful. See that sick child. How forlorn and woe- 
stricken it looks! Mark rheumatic or gouty victims. Every motion is 
painful, and most of their sources of pleasure are converted into worm- 
wood ! Behold that wretched victim of disease lying prostrate on a sick 
bed! Torn from business, society, and all the enjoyment of life, and 
racked with pain! The boiling blood courses through his veins, swollen 
almost to a bursting. Hear his piteous wail — “My head, O, my 
head!” See those eyes rolling in agony! Open the windows of his Soul, 
and behold his struggle for life in the midst of death, his horrid dread 
of which far exceeds the torturing pain of disease! Hear him pant for 
breath! Witness that gurgling in his throat! Behold the last agoniz- 
ing struggle between life and death, and that final giving up of the 
ghost! What is more dreadful than sickness! What horror of horrors 
at all compares with that most awful scene experienced on earth, pre- 
mature death! from which may. God deliver us. Rather, let us all 
deliver ourselves, by preserving our health. 
To argue that health is spontaneous, and as natural as breathing, 
or eating, or sleeping, is in fact, only these and other functions in their 
natural and vigorous action, is attempting to prove an axiom, or we 
see what we see. Allowed their natural play, all the organs will go 
on perpetually to manufacture life, health, and happiness, which, unless 
their flow is arrested by violated law, will flow on as freely and spon- 
taneously to every human being as the river to its own ocean home. It 
breathes itself, sees itself, moves itself, sleeps itself, digests itself, thinks 
and feels itself, everything itself; and breathes, sees, thinks, feels, every- 
thing exactly right, whenever the proper conditions are fulfilled. Is it diffi- 
cult to breathe? or to breathe right? or enough? or wholesome air? AND HABIT CONQUERED 
91 
Rather, it is exceedingly difficult not to breathe, or breathe too little, or a 
noxous tobacco smoky atmosphere. Is it hard to eat? or enough? or 
what is healthy? Yet the converse is always difficult. These illustra- 
tions apply to every other function of the body. 
Every organ is constituted to commence its normal and healthy action 
from the first, and perform it spontaneously through life; and that to a 
much greater degree than any now attain. Indeed it requires great, or 
else long-continued violence, to arrest their healthy and pleasurable func- 
tions at any time between birth and death. Hence there is no more 
need of our becoming sick, or of these functions being enfeebled or 
disordered, than of our shutting our eyes for weeks together, or refusing 
to breathe, or move, or preventing any other function by force. The 
human constitution has a power to resist disease perfectly astonishing. 
How many of my readers have abused it outrageously hundreds of 
times, with comparative impunity; and even after they have thus 
broken it down, have still endured sickness and suffering till they wonder 
that they yet live! What would yours now have been if you had pro- 
moted instead of abusing it! How many hardships could you once 
endure! How much it took to break you down! None realize how 
much they outrage it. Every day and night, almost hour, we do some- 
thing more or less detrimental to it—stay indoors too much; or remain 
much in heated rooms; or exercise too little; or else labor too much, or 
not exactly right; or sleep in close rooms; or over-eat, or eat what is 
injurious, or at least a diet less beneficial than some other things; or 
smoke too much; or overtax the mind,or perhaps exercise it loo little; or 
sit in an unwholesome posture; or neglect the skin; or dress to warm; or 
take cold; or one or another of these ten thousand kindred things, more 
or less injurious to it which all perpetrate almost perpetually. 
All this, in addition to those extreme imprudences of which almost 
all are frequently more or less guilty. And yet in spite of all this abuse 
of it, see how healthy many remain, often eighty or a hundred years! 
Tobacco poisons the human constitution; yet see how many consume 
daily often many smoke cigars and pipes for thirty, and even fifty years 
without destroying their health, though they greatly impair it. See what 92 
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poisonous drugs some will swallow, and yet live! In short, Nature has 
done her utmost to bestow vigorous and uninterrupted health on every 
member of the human family, and to ward off disease and prolong life. 
Behold and wonder at the physical stamina and energy provided for 
by her, and then say whether every human being is not constituted for 
health. Even admitting that children often inherit disease from parents, 
yet the fact that parents have health sufficient to become parents, is 
abundant proof that their offspring, by careful observation of the health 
and hygenic laws, can both ward off their inherited predispositions, and 
enjoy excellent health to a good old age. 
If you would succeed in life, preserve health. 
If you would get rich, make health paramount. 
If you would enjoy animal luxury, preserve health. 
If you would acquire knowledge, take good care of your health. 
If you would become great or good, vigorous health is first. 
If you live to do good, preserve health, for what good could you 
do if sick or dead? 
If you would always be "on hand” for business, pleasure, work, 
whatever may turn up, secure perfect health. Whatever may be your 
life-end or motive, make the preservation of health your first business, 
as it is your indispensable instrumentality of all else. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
93 
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DOBBIE & FOX—Relation between the absorption spectra and con- 
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Effects of tobacco smoke on the vascular system, preliminary 
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TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
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Double salts of nicotine hydrochloride and cadmium chloride. 
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GUILLAIN & GY—A comparative study of the different methods of 
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Only a small portion of the nicotine passes into the aspirated 
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Am. Chem. Research 1904, 10, 255. 
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Am. J. Phar. 1884, 56, 376. New Rem. 1875, 4, 179. 104 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
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Pro. A. Ph. A. 1895, 43, 548. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1894, 66, Part 2, 403. 
Coniine and nicotine may be distinguished by adding phe- 
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JAWORODOWSKI, ADAM—Reagent for nicotine and some other 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1888, 54, 1331. 106 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1908, 27, 1181. 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind.—Tobacco experiments. Kentucky Experiment Sta- 
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Preparation of nicotine. Eng. Pat. 11,758, May 17, 1912. J. Soc. 
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Nicotine as an insecticide. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1912, 31, 401. 
Tobacco growing in Great Britain. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1912, 
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French import duty on nicotine salts. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1910, 
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Tobacco juice in France. U. S. Cons. Reps. Oct., 1899, 236. J. 
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Experiments in growing and fermenting tobacco. Annual Re- 
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Maunal experiments. J. Chem. Soc. 1903, 84, Part 2, 681. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Am. Drug. 1886, 15, 185. 
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Am. Drug. 1894, 24, 118. 
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Chem. Abs. 1909, 3, 2311. Chem. Abs. 1909, 3, 2580. 
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Action of iodine or nicotine. J. Chem. Soc. 1903, 84, Part. 2, 582.. 
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TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1902, 21, 1104. 
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Nicotine in tobacco smoke and consideration of the active 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1894, 66, Part 2, 75. 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1901, 20, 300. Analyst 1904, 29, 378. 
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Estimation of nicotine in concentrated tobacco juice J. Chem. 
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The amount of nicotine, wax, resin, and non-volatile organic 
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Determination of volatile organic acids in tobacco. J. Soc. 
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Exact determination of nicotine in tobacco and green plants 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1912, 102, ii, 398. 
KLUCHAREV, A.—Cultivation and composition of tobacco in Russia. 
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Determination of nicotine in tobacco, polarimetrically. 
Chem. Abs. 1912, 6, 274. Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 2876. 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1911, 100, ii, 672 and 1143. 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 507. 
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Process for removing nicotine from tobacco. Eng. Pat. 26,939, 
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Pro. A. Ph. A. 1900, 48, 828. 
LANG, H.—Tobacco seeding and breeding. Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 141. 110 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
LANGLEY, JOHN W.—Action of nicotine in nerve-cells is that of 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1910, 98, ii, 797. 
LAVAGNA, SALVATORE—Changes in blood pressure and arterial 
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Chem. Abs. 1913, 7, 2439. 
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Chem. Abs. 1909, 3, 912. 
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Am. Drug. 1909, 55, 110. Merck’s Report 1908, 17, 274. 
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Chemical and toxicological studies on tobacco, tobacco smoke 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1909, 96, ii, 334. 
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LEHMANN & GUNDERMANN—The significance of hydrocyanic 
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Chem. Abs. 1912, 6, 3123. 
LEISTER, J.—The determination of nicotine in tobacco. 
Chem. Abs. 1911, 6, 2125. 
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Pro. A. Ph. A. 1867, 15, 245. New Rem. 1879, 8, 112. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
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Am. J. Phar. 1897, 69, 557. 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1899, 18, 1161. 
Catalase; New enzyme in cured tobacco and of general occur- 
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Chem. Abs. 1912, 6, 1497. 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1899, 18, 606. 
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Pro. A. Ph. A. 1875, 23, 150. 
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942,838, Dec. 7, 1909. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1910, 29, 106. Eng. Pat. 
25, 956, Nov. 10, 1909. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1910, 29, 1076. 112 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
MARQUART, L. C.—Nicotine salicylate—A new remedial compound. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1899, 47, 750. 
MAYER, F. F.—Tobacco. Am. J. Phar. 1865, 37, 209-216. 
MAYER, A.—Climatic conditions for the development of nicotine. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1892, 40, 778. J. Chem. Soc. 1891, 60, 858. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1891, 10, 805. 
McCRAE, J.—Nicotine in South Africa tobacco. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1907, 55, 773. 
Chem. Abs. 1907, 1, 1031. 
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Chem. Abs. 1913, 7, 2775. 
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1913, 35, 826-34. J. Chem. Soc. 1913, 104, i, 809. 
McNESS & AYER—Experiments in growing Cuban seed tobacco 
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McNESS & HINSON—Experiments in growing Cuban seed tobacco 
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McNESS & MATHEWSON — Improvement of Virginia fire-cured 
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Chem. Abs. 1908, 2, 1174. Chem. Abs. 1907, 1, 2396. 
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Pro. A. Ph. A. 1880, 28, 123. Am. J. Phar. 1879, 51, 536-541. 
MELLET, R.—Determination of nicotine in manufactured tobacco 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1912, 31, 89. J. Chem. Soc. 1911, 100, ii, 672. 
Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 2382, 3861. Analyst 36, 348. 
MENTZEL, A.—Tobacco soap—A remedy for scabies. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1900, 48, 510. 
Nicotine soap—Preparation and medicinal use. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1886, 44, 440. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
113 
MERCK’S REPORT—Cumarine for flavoring tobacco. Merck’s Rep. 
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Merck’s Report, 7, 347. Merck’s Report, 6, 180. 
Merck’s Report, 5, 281. 
MESZLENYI, EMIL—Compound of nicotine and molybdenium. 
Merck’s Rep. 1905, 14, 179. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1905, 24, 460. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1905, 53, 821. J. Chem. Soc. 1905, 88, i, 371. 
MILLER, D. P.—Cultivation of tobacco in Virginia. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1879, 27, 157. Am. J. Ph. 1878, 30, 427. 
Tobacco statistics. Am. J. Phar. 1878, 50, 425. 
MOLBY, F. A.—The rotary power of nicotine at low temperatures. 
Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 13. 
MOLISCH, H.—The influence of tobacco smoke on plants. 
Chem. Abs. 1912, 6, 1021. Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 2666. 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1912, 31, 261. 
MOONELIS & BAER—Tobacco preparations and prosesses of mak- 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 216. 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1908, 94, ii, 533. 
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6, 2814. 
MORGAN, T.—Manufacture of tobacco extract for insecticide. Eng. 
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MORGAN & PARMAN—Arsenate of lead as an insecticide against 
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U. S. Dept. Agr. Farmers’ Bull. 595, 1-8. Chem. Abs. 1913, 7, 2645. 114 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
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Am. J. Phar. 1862, 34,*510. 
MOUREU, CHARLES—Recent investigations on the alkaloids of 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1893, 64, 1, 444. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1893, 41, 856. 
NEILL, H.—Improvement relating to the curing of tobacco and ana- 
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Merck’s Report 1903, 12, 318. 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1888, 7, 684. 
NEWBORNE, R. G.—Tobacco drying and nicotine extracting process. 
U. S. Pat. 1,039,897, Oct. 1, 1912. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1912, 31, 1050. 
NEW REMEDIES—Eucalyptus and tobacco. New Rem. 1875, 4, 17. 
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28,536, Dec. 28, 1907. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1908, 27, 1177. 
NICE, L. B.—Studies on the 'effects of alcohol, nicotine and caffeine 
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NICOLAI & STAEHELIN—Effect of tobacco on the organs of cir- 
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Ger. Pat. 258,004, Oct. 18, 1912. J. Chem. Soc. Ind. 1913, 32, 625. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
115 
OLENHEINZ & MEULEN—Manufacture of tobacco perparations. 
Eng. Pat. 17,037, July 22, 1912. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 882. 
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J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1913, 35, 1289-1309. 
J. Soc. Ind. 1913, 32, 1084. J. Chem. Soc. 1913, 104, i, 1120. 
Chem. Abs. 1913, 7, 3608. Analyst 1913, 38, 506. 
OLIVERI, VINCENZO—Constitution of nicotine. J. Chem. Soc. 1895, 
68, i, 433. 
ORFILA, M.—Pure nicotine may be characterized as easily as a 
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Am. J. Phar. 1852, 24, 142. 
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Influence of nicotine on the alkalinity of the blood. Chem. 
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PALMER, E.—Nicotina trigonophylla and other species are used by 
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Am. J. Phar. 1878, 50, 589. 
PARANT, DR.—Process and apparatus for removing nicotine from 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1910, 29, 234. 
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Industrial preparation and physiological action of nicotine oxa- 
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PARSONS, J. HERBERT—Action of nicotine on nerve-cells. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1901, 80, ii, 408. 
PEAKE—Tobacco against the rattlesnake bite. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1860, 9, 127. 116 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
PEASE, E. T.—Estimation of nicotine in tobacco, also from old clay 
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J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1880, 2, 338. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1881, 29, 139. 
PEZZOLATO, A.—Determination of nicotine in presence of am- 
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Merck’s Report, 1906, 15, 370. Pro. A. Ph. A 1907, 55, 771. 
New synthesis of nicotine. Merck’s Rep. 1904, 13, 47. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1904, 52, 949. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1905, 53, 821. 
PICTET & COURT—New alkaloids separated from tobacco. 
Analyst 1907, 32, 417. 
PICTET & ROTSCHY—Synthesis of nicotine. Am. J. Phar. 1904, 76, 
137. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1905, 27, 1567. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1903 ,22, 1206, 1365. 
New alkaloids from tobacco. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1901, 80, i, 339. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 20, 501. 
Merck’s Report 1901, 10, 126. Am .Drug. 1901, 39, 238. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1901, 49, 677. Am. J. Phar. 1902, 74, 292. 
PINETTE, J.—The estimation of nicotine in tobacco. 
Analyst 1892, 17, 178. 
PINNER, A.—By the interaction of nitrosohexahydronicotine and 
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The action of bromine on nicotine. J. Chem. Soc. 1892, 62, 1497. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1895, 68, i, 628. 
Constitution of nicotine. J. Chem. Soc. 1893, 64, i, 736, also 
286 and 736. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1894, 66, i, 388, and 1895, 68, i, 116. Tobacco alka- 
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Nicotine and its derivatives. 
Am. Drug. 1892, 21, 387. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1893, 41, 856. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
117 
PINNER & WOLFFENSTEIN—The formation of benzoyl-nicotine 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1891, 10, 569. Pro. A. Ph. 1892, 40, 778. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1893, 41, 856. 
Oxidation of nicotine. J. Chem. Soc. 1891, 60, 473, also 1887, 52, 
1010 and 1895, 68, ii, 308. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 10, 381 and 1892, 11, 705. 
PONTAG, J. J.—Products of combustion of tobacco when smoked as 
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POPOVICI, MAX—Quantitative determination of nicotine by the 
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Analsyt 1890, 15, 53. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1889, 8, 736. 
PORCHET & REGIS—Estimation of nicotine in concentrated 
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Pro. A. Ph. A. 1910, 58, 368. 
Analyst 1909, 34, 534. 
PORCHET & TONDUZ—The determination of nicotine in concen- 
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POSTL, H.—Dutch tobacco paper. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1911, 30, 949. 
POUCHKINE, J. YDAN—Influence of tobacco on healthy persons. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1892, 40, 779. 
Am. J. Phar. 1891, 63, 556. 
PRO. A. PH. A.—Tobacco cultivation in India. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1896, 44, 553. 
Tobacco cultivation in Australia. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1890, 44, 553. 
Protection of tobacco plants by cheese cloth. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1905, 53, 631. 
Nicotine camphorate. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1905, 53, 822. Perique 
tobacco. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1891, 39, 141. 
PROCTER, WILLIAM, JR.—Does nicotine exist in green tobacco, or 
is it a result of fermentation in the curing process? 
Am. J. Phar. 1858, 30, 502-508. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1858, 7, 295-300. 118 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
PSERHOFER, R.—Improvements in the manufacture of tobacco. 
(Combination of essential oils and aromatic herbs with) Eng. 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1897, 16, 559. 
PURVIS, J. E.—-The absorption spectra of nicotine, coniine, and quin- 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1910, 97, 1035. Chem. Abs. 1910, 4, 2293. 
RAVENNA & BABINI—Formation of alkaloids in tobacco. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1912, 31, 201, and 1911, 30, 1029. 
Chem. Abs. 1912, 6, 381. 
J. Chem. Soc. 912, 102, ii, 83. Yearbook A. Ph. A. 1912, 1, 164. 
RATZ, FLORIAN—Nicotine zincichloride. J. Chem. Soc. 1906, 90, 
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J. Chem. Soc. 1906, 90, i, 103. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1906, 54, 929. 
REICHARD C.—Differentiation of coniine, nicotine and sparteine. J. 
Chem. Soc. 1905, 88, ii, 563. Analyst 1905, 30, 372. 
J. So.c. Chem. Ind. 1906, 25, 200. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1905, 53, 820. 
REIMANN, C.—Process for improving tobacco and the products 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1902, 21, 728. 
RICHARD, P.—Chlorides of the soil. Absorption of, by plants and 
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Chem. Ind. 1899, 18, 409. 
RICHARDSON, DR.—Effects of tobacco upon health. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1864, 12, 108. 
Functional disease of the ear resulting from the use of tobacco. 
Drug. Cir. 1879, 23, 70. 
RICHON & PERRIN—Condition of some organs of rabbits retarded 
in development by experminental tobacco. 
Chem. Abs. 1910, 4, 1205. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
119 
ROUSSEAUX, E.—Fertilizing principles required by the tobacco 
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RUNNER, G. A.—The so-called tobacco wireworm. U. S. Dept. Agr- 
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SANSTEN, E. P.—Report on tobacco investigation in Wisconsin for 
1903 and 1904. Am. Chem. Research 1905, 11, 430. 
SARTIG, J.—Method of removing nicotine from tobacco. 
Eng. Pat. 11,460, May 10, 1910. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1911, 30, 109. 
Fr. Pat. 438,175, Dec. 21, 1911. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1912, 31, 601 and 792. 
Ger. Pat. 197,159, March 18, 1906. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1908, 27, 592. 
U. S. Pat. 1,055,360, Mar. 11, 1913. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 450. U. S. Pat. 999,674. 
J. Ind. & Eng. Chem. 1911, 3, 958. 
SADTLER, S. P.—Nicotine. Am. J. Phar. 1883, 55, 548 and 1889, 61, 
547. 
SAVERY, T. I.—Presence of caffetannic acid in tobacco. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1884, 32, 300. 
SCHALLER, J.—Process of extracting nicotine. Ger. Pat. 254,667, 
June 16, 1911. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 213. 
SCHIEL—Determination of nicotine in tobacco. 
Am. J. Phar. 1860, 32, 137. 
SCHEFFER, EMIL—Estimation of nicotine in tobacco. 
Am. J. Phar. 1884, 56, 497. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1885, 33, 334. 
SCHINDELMEISER, IRWIN—Detection of nicotine by means of 
formaldehyde. A trace of nicotine is mixed with 1 drop 30% 
formaldehyde, a solid residue is formed after some hours which 
gives an intense rose coloration when touched with a drop of 
strong nitric acid, if resinous matter is present, a blood red 
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TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
Chem. Soc. 1902, 82, ii, 115. Merck’s Report 1900, 9, 69. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1900, 78, ii, 380. Analyst 1900, 25, 128. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1900, 19, 173, 278. 
Color reaction to distinguish nicotine from coniine. Pro. A. 
Ph. A. 1900, 48, 827. 
SCHLOESSING, M.—The French Academy of Sciences have pub- 
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The extracting of nicotine from tobacco. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1894, 13, 850. 
SCHLOESING, THEOPHILE—Production of nicotine in tobacco cul- 
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Pro. A. Ph. 1911, 59, 188. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1894, 42, 1134. 
Chem. Abs. 1910, 4, 2538. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1894, 13, 1087. 
SCHRODER, J.—Determination of nicotine in concentrated tobacco 
extracts (sheep-washes.) 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1911, 30, 150. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1911, 100, ii, 163, 552. 
Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 1573, 2673. 
Analyst 1911, 36, 106. Tobacco extract, its market price and 
actual value. Chem. Abs. 5, 2696. 
SCHUETTE, W.—Tobacco alkaloid pre-formed in the leaves. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1892, 40, 778. Am. J. Phar. 1891, 63, 603. 
SCHWEINITZ, E. A. DE—Nicotine in powders; extracts. Reports 
on methods for determination of. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1900, 19, 281. U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 56, 113. 
SCURTI & PERCIABOSCO—Presence of allantoin in, and the 
absence of solanin from tobacco seeds. J. Chem. Soc. 1907, 
92, ii, 24. 
SELF, P. A. W. —Determination of nicotine in tobacco. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1912, 31, 601. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
121 
SINNHOLD, HUGO—By using Kissling method gives the amount of 
nicotine in European cigars as 0.648 to 2.957%; in cigarette 
tobacco 0.801 to 2.887%; pipe tobacco 0.518 to 1.854% and 
Havana tobacco 0.972 to 2.241%. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1899, 76, ii, 48. Pro. A .Ph. A. 1899, 47, 525. 
SKALWEIT, DR. J.—Estimation of nicotine in tobacco. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1882, 30, 165. New Rem. 1881, 10, 279. 
Am. J. Phar. 1882, 54, 60. 
SMITH, A. H.—A porous and absorbent material, chiefly applicable 
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J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1894, 13, 395. * 
SMITH, A. PERCY—Composition of cigar ashes. Drug. Cir. 1874, 
18, 204. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1874, 22, 107. 
SMITH, B. H.—Nicotine, analysis and remarks. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Bureau of Chemistry, Bui. 90, 102, 104. 
Tobacco extract, analysis and contents. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Bureau of Chem. Bui. 99, 28. 
SMITH, E. F.—The Granville tobacco wilt. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Bureau Plant Ind. Bui. 141, 17-24. 
SPALLINO, R.—Determination of nicotine as silicotungstate. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 1126. 
J. Chem. Soc. Abs. 1913, 104, ii, 1085. 
STARKE, J.—Solanine in tobacco seeds. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1902, 
21, 136. 
STUTZER, ALBERT—Manurial experiments with calcium nitrate on 
tobacco and tomatoes. J. Chem. Soc. 1909, 96, ii, 929. 
STUTZER & GOY—Influence of shading tobacco (during growth) 
on various constituents of the leaves. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 1083. 122 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
SUREE, L.—Determination of nicotine in the presence of pyridine 
bases. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1911, 30, 979. 
Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 2876. 
TAFEL, J.—Action of silver acetate on nicotine. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1892, 62, 1104. 
TAKAYAMA, T.—Four analyses of tobacco. Including determina- 
tions of nicotine, oxalic, citric, malic, acetic and pectic acids. 
Nicotine in four samples, 1.89, 2.45, 3.02, 3.92, ash 8.45, 9.80, 15.76, 
20.17. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1884, 6, 312. 
TAMISIER, M.—Influence of tobacco in diseases of nerve-centers. 
New Rem. 1872, 1, 214. 
THOMS, H.—Poisonous constituents of tobacco smoke. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1900, 48, 592. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1901, 49, 678. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1900, 78, ii, 428. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1901, 20, 626. 
Am. Drug. 1900, 36, 69. Hydrogen cyanide in cigar smoke. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1900, 78, ii, 428. J. Chem. Soc. 1903, 84, i„ 324. 
Tobacco rendered harmless and poisonous products of com- 
bustion removed. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1904, 52, 663. Am. Drug. 1904, 44,108. 
THOMSEN, T.—Nicotine hydrochloride antimony pentachloride is 
obtained as pale rose-red columnar crystals. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1911, 100, i, 484. 
THORNE, C. E.—Experiments with fertilizers on tobacco. 
Am. Chem. Research 1905, 11, 584. 
THORPE & HOLMES—The occurance of paraffins in the leaf 
tobacco. J. Chem. Soc. 1901, 79, 982. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1902, 50, 826. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1901, 20, 758. 
TORRESE, R.—Reactions for distinguishing between nicotine and 
cicutine. J. Chem. Soc. 1905, 88, ii. 778. 
TOTH, JULIUS—Estimation of nicotine in tobacco. 
Analyst 1902, 27, 12. J. Chem. Soc. 1901, 80, ii, 363, 708. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1901, 20, 942. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1901, 49, 892. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
123 
Determination of the total organic acids in tobacco. Analyst 
1906, 31, 80. 
Estimation of carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke. J. Chem. 
Soc. 1907, 92, ii. 197. 
Determination of the volatile organic acids in tobacco. J. Soc. 
Chem. 1908, 27, 357. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1908, 94, ii, 330. Chem. Abs. 1908, 2, 2107. 
Estimation of the non-volatile organic acids in tobacco. J. 
Chem. Soc. 1908, 94, ii, 238. Chem. Soc. 1907, 11, 749. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1907, 92, ii, 513. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1907, 26, 491. 
Description of apparatus to numerically express the combus- 
tibility of a tobacco, that is whether it smokes slowly or quickly 
as compared with other tobaccos. J. Chem. Soc. 1905, 88, ii. 216. 
Estimation of the relative amounts of organic acids occuring 
in tobacco before and after fermentation. J. Chem. Soc. 1909, 
96, ii, 446. Analyst 1909, 34, 233. Chem. Abs. 1909, 3, 1656. 
Free nicotine content in tobacco smoke. The smoke from 300 
average cigars yielded 8.786 grams free organic bases and 0.661 
grams combined organic gases (both considered as nicotine,) 
therefore 93% of the organic bases in tobacco smoke are pres- 
ent in the free state. 
Chem. Abs. 1910, 4, 626. Analyst 1909, 34, 445. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1909, 96, ii, 839. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1910, 58, 179. 
Content of free and combined nicotine in Hungarian tobaccos. 
Chem. Abs. 1910, 4, 1050. 
Comparative studies of methods for the determination of nico- 
tine in tobacco extracts. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1911, 30, 1084. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1901, 20, 942. Analyst 1912, 37, 452. 
Chem. Abs. 1912, 6, 3310. Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 3707. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1911, 100, ii, 943. J. Chem. Soc. 1912, ii, 1010. 
The cyanogen compounds of tobacco smoke. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1910, 29, 458. Chem. Abs. 1910, 4, 1068, 2528. 
Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 126, 1133. Chem. Abs. 1912, 6, 667. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1910, 98, ii, 165, 443. J. Chem. Soc. 1911, 100, ii, 143. 
TOWNSEND, E. ROSS—Scientific control of tobacco growing in 
Rhodesia. Chem. Abs. 1912, 2481. 124 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
TRAETTA-MOSCA, FILIPPO—Laevulose in the leaves of Kentucky 
tobacco grown in Italy. J. Chem. Soc. 1913, 104, i. 1431. J. Soc. 
Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 1084. 
TRILLAT, A.—Burnt tobacco from various sources in the form of 
cigars, cigarettes, in clay and wooden pipes and the formalde- 
hyde in the products of combustion was estimated as tetrame- 
thyldiaminodiphenylmethane. The quantity of formaldehyde 
formed varies little with the origin of the tobacco and yielded 
0.05 to 0.1 per cent, of the weight of the substance burnt. 
Formaldehyde does not exist in the free state in the products 
of combustion but combines with nitrogenous bases (such as 
nicotine) also present in the tobacco smoke to form compounds 
which possesse none of the deleterious properties of the two 
constituents. J. Chem. Soc. 1905, 88, ii, 53. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1905, 88, ii. 53. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1904, 23, 1164. 
TRUE, R. H.—The moulds of cigars and their prevention. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 109, 1-8. 
TSAKALOTOS, D. E.—The binary system. Nicotine and water. 
Chem. Abs. 1909, 3, 1954. J. Chem. Soc. 1909, 96, i, 412. 
TURPIN, E.—Process and apparatus for treating tobacco and its 
by-products. Eng. Pat. 16,613, July 28, 1903. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1904, 23, 881. 
ULEX, H.—Determination of nicotine in concentrated tobacco 
extracts. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1911, 30, 237. 
Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 1637. 
J. Chem. 1911, 100, ii, 345. Analyst 1911, 36, 143. 
U. S. Dept| Agr.—Tobacco and tobacco extracts. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Bureau of Chem. Cir. 10, 6-7. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Bureau of Chem. Bui. 107, (Revised) 32. 
VAN BEMMELIN, J. M.—Constituents of tobacco ash. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1892, 40, 778. AND HABIT CONQUERED 
125 
VAUBEL, WILHELM—The ammonia content of tobacco smoke. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1912, 102, ii, 83. Chem. Abs. 1912, 6, 667. 
VEDRODI, V.—Estimation of nicotine and ammonia in tobacco. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1894, 42, 555. J. Chem. Soc. 1895, 68, 541. 
Analyst 1895, 20, 255. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1893, 12, 631. J. Chem. Soc. 1893, 64, ii, 504. 
VELEY & WALLER—Action of nicotine and other pyridine bases 
on muscle, and on the antagonism of nicotine by curarine. J. 
Chem. Soc. 1910, 98, ii, 524. Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 110. 
VERDA, A.—The action of alcohol vapors on tobacco leaves. 
Chem. Abs. 1911, 5, 2407. 
VILLIERS-STUART, H.—Extraction of nicotine from green and 
uncured tobacco. Eng. Pat. 20,347, Sept. 6, 1912. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1913, 32, 924. 
VOHL & EULENBERG—Tobacco in pipes or cigars. New Rem. 1874, 
3, 335. 
VOORHEES, L. A.—A new and valuable cover crop for tobacco—Rus- 
sian vetch is strongly recommended. Am. Chem. Res. 1905, 11,530. 
Quantitative method for determination of nicotine. U. S. Dept. 
Agr. Bureau of Chemistry, Bui. 57, 105. 
WAHL, FRITZ—Carbonic oxide in tobacco smoke. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1909, 78, ii. 221. 
WAGNER, P.—Manuring of tobacco. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1908, 27, 
1032. 
WARDEN & WADDLE—Nicotine like principle in Indian hemp. 
Am. J. Phar. 1885, 57, 266. 
WEIDANZ, OSKAR—Nicotine poisoning from the Medico-Legal 
standpoint. Chem. Abs. 1907, 1, 1148. 
WEIDL, H.—Oxidation of nicotine. Pro. A. Ph. A. 1873, 21, 384. 
WEIHERS, E. T. C.—Tobacco, or of the smoke thereof, for the pur- 
pose of increasing its salubrious effect on the smoker. Eng. 
Pat. 22,192, Oct. 6, 1896. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1897, 16, 821. 126 
TOBACCO MYSTERIES EXPOSED 
WENDER, N.—Nicotine, reaction with furfurol test. 
Am. J. Phar. 1893, 65, 382. 
WENT, G.—Estimation of nicotine contained in tobacco. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1894, 42, 555. 
WILEY, H. W.—Fermented and unfermented tobacco. 
Wiley’s Agr. Analysis, 3, 596-610. 
WINGHAM, ARTHUR—English-grown tobacco. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1887, 6, 76, 162, 400. 
WINTERBERG, HEINRICH—Action of nicotine on respiration and 
circulation. J. Chem. Soc. 1900, 78, ii. 424. 
WINTHER, C.—Rotation and rotation dispersion of nicotine. 
Pure nicotine at 20° (a)D-163.85°. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1907, 92, ii. 831. 
WINTON, A. L.—Tobacco. 
Winton’s Microscopy of Vegetable Foods, 486. 
WITNER, J. A.—Tobacco culture in Pennsylvania. . 
Drug. Cir. 1876, 20, 200. Am. J. Phar. 1876, 48, 256-258. 
WITTNEY, MILTON & MEANS—Temperature changes in ferment- 
ing piles of cigar-leaf. U. S. Dept. Agr. Report 1899. 
J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1899, 18, 1162. 
FRANKEL & WOGRINZ—Aroma of tobacco. They state the aroma 
is due to a volatile alkaloid (Volatile with steam) which they 
call nicotianine. 
YEARBOOK A. PH. A.—Estimation of nicotine in tobacco. 
Yearbook A. Ph. A. 1912, 1, 426. 
ZALACKAS, C.—The alkaloid of Nasturtium officinale is stated to 
be the best antidote for nicotine. 
J. Chem. Soc. 1905, 88, ii. 339. 
J. Soc. Chemfl Ind. 1905, 24, 354. Am. Drug. 1904, 44, 233. 
ZAPF, PROF.—Influence of fermentation on tobacco. 
Pro. A. Ph. A. 1891. 39, 387. REPORT—December 1st, 1915, to December 31st, 1916 
LECTURES AND ATTENDANCE 
>ecember, 1915 22 15,309 
anuary, 1916 66 79,990 
’ebruary, 1916 21 18,615 
larch, 1916 40 52,055 
tpril, 1916 43 59,980 
lay, 1916 61 71,950 
une, 1916 50 68,900 
uly, 1916 56 59,775 
August, 1916 89 105,491 
September, 1915... 52 49,800 
October, 1916 77 53,312 
November, 1916 55 54,130 
December, 1916 30 21,000 
> 13 months. 662 703,308 
CIRCULARS AND PAMPHLETS 
DISTRIBUTED 
[Reprint) Information and Advice on 
Venereal Diseases, New York Board 
1 of Health 30,000 
Father and Son—Eugenics 9,000 
Mother and Daughter—Eugenics 9,000 
Silent Worker—Hygiene 20,000 
Humanity—White Slavery, Morals, Sex- 
ology 20,000 
Thy Mother—Morals 600 
Ten Commandments 10,000 
Promoting Single Code of Morals 10,000 
Purpose of Bureau 10,000 
Poems—(Clean Living) 10,000 
Sound Advice 10,000 
CITIES VISITED. 54 138,600 
Boston, Mass. Deansboro, N. Y. 
Beverly, Mass. Clinton, N. Y. 
Lynn, Mass. Whitesboro, N. Y. 
Roxbury, Mass. Yorkville, N. Y. 
Cambridge, Mass. Buffalo, N. Y. 
New York City. White Plains, N. Y. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Rome, N. Y. 
Long Island City, N. Y. Syracuse, N. Y. 
Staten Island, N. Y. Auburn, N. Y. 
Yonkers, N. Y. Owasca Lake, N. Y. 
Hastings, N. Y. Rochester, N. Y. 
Wappinger Falls, N. Y. Sea Breeze, N. Y. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Le Roy, N. Y. 
Newburg, N. Y. Batavia, N. Y. 
Hudson, N. Y. Lackawanna, N. Y. 
Albany, N. Y. Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
West Albany, N. Y. Detroit, Mich. 
Cohoes, N. Y. Mt. Clemens, Mich. 
Troy, N. Y. Hoboken, N. J. 
Schenectady, N. Y. Harrison, N. J. 
Amsterdam, N. Y. Newark, N. J. 
Gloversville, N. Y. Bloomfield, N. J. 
Illion, N. Y. West Orange, N. J. 
Utica, N. Y. Orange, N. J. 
Watervliet, N. Y. East Orange, N. J. 
Oriskany Falls, N. Y. Elizabeth, N. J. 
Hamilton, N. Y. Stamford, Conn. 
LECTURES 
Y. M. H. A Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Nostrand Ave. M. E. Church. .Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Lockwood Club Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Roumanian Young Folks’ Club N. Y. City 
Zion A. M ,E. Church Englewood, N. J. 
National Motion Picture Exhibition Assn., 
New York City 
Many Other Civic Organizations 
FACTORY AND SHOP LECTURES 
IN CITIES AND TOWNS 
Boston Mass Thomas G. Plant Shoe 
Factory and Pemberton Sq. 
Beverly Mass U. S. Shoe Machine Mfg. Co. 
Cambridge, Mass Ford Motor Co. 
Cambridge, Mass., 
Gray Davis Self-Starter Mfg. Co. 
Roxbury, Mass., 
American Steam Valve Mfg. Co. 
Lynn, Mass General Electric Co. 
Long Island City, 
General Vehicle Co.-Brewster Auto Co. 
Brooklyn, N. Y Chas. Williams Stores 
Brooklyn, N. Y E. W. Bliss Co. 
Brooklyn, N. Y Morse Dry Dock Co. 
Brooklyn, N. Y Robbins Dry Dock Co. 
Brooklyn, N. Y Montgomery Ward Co. 
Brooklyn, N. Y J. H. Williams Co. 
Brooklyn, N. Y U. S. Navy Yard 
Brooklyn, N. Y. .Mergenthaler Lino. Mach. Co. 
Staten Island, N. Y S. I. Ship Building Co. 
Yonkers, N. Y Otis Elevator Co. 
Hastings, N. Y Nat. Conduit & Cable Co. 
Wappinger Falls, N. Y Garnet Print Works 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. F. I. A. T. Auto Factory 
Poughkeepsie. N. Y..Street Lecture, Main and 
Market Sts., and Y. M. H. A. 
Newburg, N. Y Harrison Gorke Silk Mills 
Newburg, N. Y Street Lecture, 
Broadway and Grand St. 
Hudson, N. Y Gifford Wood Shop 
Hudson, N. Y Warren St.—Open Aair 
Albany, N. Y J. B. Lyon, Printer 
Albany, N. Y...State and Pearl Sts.—Open Air 
West Albany, N. Y.... N. Y. C. R. R. Shop 
Cohoes, N. Y.Root’s Tivoli and Harmony Mills 
Schenectady, N. Y General Electric Works 
Schenectady, N. Y...Amer. Locomotive Works 
Schenectady, N. Y....State and Barrett Sts.— 
Open Air 
Amsterdam, N. Y Chalmers Knitting Co. 
Amsterdam, N. Y Main and Bridge Sts.— 
Open Air 
Watervliet, N. Y D. L. & W. R. R. Shop 
Gloversville, N.Y...Louis Meyers Glove Shop 
Gloversville, N. Y Bleeker Sq.—Open Air 
Illion, N. Y. Remington Arms & Typewriter Co. 
Utica, N. Y Savage Arms Co. 
Utica, N. Y Franklin Sq.—Open Air 
Rome, N. Y Dominick and James Sts.— 
Open Air 
Syracuse, N. Y Brown Leip Chapin Shop 
Syracuse, N. Y Franklin Automobile Co. 
Syracuse, N. Y... .L. C. Smith Typewriter Co. 
Syracuse, N. Y...Clinton and Vanderbilt Sq.— 
Open Air 
Auburn, N. Y International Harvester Co. 
Auburn, N. Y Court House—Open Air 
Rochester, N. Y Bosch Lomb Optical Co. 
Rochester, N. Y.Stromberg Carlton Phone Co. 
Rochester, N. Y Eastman Kodak Co., 
Kodak Park 
Rochester, N. Y v Water and Main Sts.— 
Open Air 
Batavia, N. Y Johnston Harvester Co. 
Buffalo, N. Y. Pierce Arrow Auto Co. 
Buffalo, N. Y Larkin Soap Co. REPORT—December 1st, 1915, to December 31st, 1916 
FACTORY AND SHOP LECTURES—(Cont’d) 
Buffalo, N. Y Crosby Co. 
Buffalo, N. Y. .Main, Chippewa, Mohawk Sts.— 
Open Air 
Detroit, Mich Packard Motor Co. 
Detroit, Mich Northway Co. 
Detroit, Mich....Burrows Adding Machine Co. 
Detroit, Mich Cadallac Auto Co. 
Detroit, Mich Maxwell Motor Co. 
Detroit, Mich Studebaker Corp’n, Autos 
Detroit, Mich Hudson Motor Co. 
Detroit, Mich Chalmers Motor Co. 
Detroit, Mich Timkin Axle Co. 
Detroit, Mich Cadallac Sq.—Open Air 
Detroit, Mich Cass and Michigan Aves.— 
Open Air 
East Orange, N. J Sprague Electric Co. 
East Orange, N. J Westinghouse Lamp Co. 
East Orange, N. J. Empire Cream Separator Co. 
Elizabeth, N. J Singer Sewing Machine Co. 
Hoboken, N. J Tietgen & Lang Ship Yard 
Hoboken, N. J Remington Arms Co. 
Harrison, N. J Edison Lamp Works 
Harrison, N. J Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. 
Harrison, N. J Worthington Pump Works 
Newark, N. J Westinghouse Lamp Co. 
Newark, N. J...Washington and Market Sts.— 
Open Air 
Bloomfield, N. J International Fuse & 
Arms Co. 
West Orange, N. J Edison Phonograph Co. 
Stamford, Conn Yale & Towne Lock Co. 
OPEN AIR STREET LECTURES, N. Y. CITY 
149th Street and Bergen Avenue, New York 
116th Street and Lenox Avenue, New York 
125th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York 
163d Street and Prospect Avenue, New York 
165th Street and Longwood Avenue, New York 
Ninth Street and Second Avenue, New York 
Bowling Green, New York. 
Rector Street and Broadway 
Exchange Place and Broad Street 
Wall and Broad Streets 
Beaver and Broad Streets 
Broadway and Park Place 
Beekman Street and Park Row 
Reade and Centre Streets 
Reade Street and Broadway 
Warren Street and Broadway 
Park Place and Broadway 
Murray Street and Broadway 
Leonard Street and Broadway 
Bond Street and Broadway 
Waverly Place and Broadway 
Union Square 
Irving Place and Fourteenth Street 
Madison Square and 23d Street 
36th, 37th, 40th, 46th, 48th, 51st, 57th, 59th, 
95th, 96tn, 103d, 137th and 146th Streets and 
Broadway 
181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. 
207th Street and Sherman Avenue 
Beverley Road and Flatbush Ave., Brooklyr 
Court Street, Brooklyn 
RESULTS 
Girls and boys restored to their parents 11 
Advice given to girls 521 
Vice districts closed due to crusade and open air meetings 3 
Crusades started for cleaner cities and towns 6 
Converted men and women from drink 55 
Boys converted from cigarette smoking and tobacco habit 826 
Girls prevented from leaving home 14 
We hope to do more. Thanks to all who have made this work possible. 
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