Judge — May 7, 1898 — page 11: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“butt” long enough” This THE CIGARETTE—A PARADOX. [F the remark is hazarded in these columns “The cigarette has been a a smaller part of the community, equally respectable, but more intelligent it is almost certain to be misunderstood. s the penalty of wearing cap-and-bells. historical examples of jesters who combined wisdom with There are, however, And they were listened to, when they spoke seriously, with the more attention by reason of the contrast. Melodies are never so entrancing 2s when they succeed discord. Dr. Holmes says, more rhythmically but less poetically, ™ Silence like a poultice came To heal the wounds of sound.” The cigarette has been a joke, but by a paradox it has also been held up as a deadly menace to health, to reason, and to life itself. ured by cocaine, hasheesh, tobac As manufact- ome fantastic minds, a cigarette isa compound of opium, arsenic, and other weird medicaments, more deadly and more varied than were known even to Medea herself. The effect of smoking in this form was either to expose the user to the taunts and jibes of being a dude, or to the warning that persistence in the habit would lead to madness and death, alliterative echo in the memory. “ Crazed by ‘ Coffin-nails head-line, and “ Puffed Life Away with ‘ Paper Pipes’”” has a familiar sound lingers with an Now what are the facts? Doffing cap-and-bells and speaking seri- ously, thisis the truth “bright Virginia” Cigarettes manufactured in America are made of * tobacco, about one-twenty-sixth of an ounce to each This innocent filler is wrapped in the purest paper, each wrapper ighing one-seven-hundredth of an ounce. neir effect is just that of other mild tobacco; they do not cause madness ; they never caused death. How is it possible thus daringly to fly in the face of the sentiments of a large part of the respectable, intelligent community ? Simply because as far as this subject goes, says with unanimity just what has been said above. This whole subject is entertainingly and convincingly set forth in a little pamphlet just published, with the modest title, “The Truth About Cigarettes.” In this brochure are to be found the results of any number of analyses made personally by chemists of world-wide reputation and committed by them to reports official and otherwise. The reports agree. No one of the chemists ever found even a trace of the deleterious ingredients vulgarly supposed to be in a cigarette. On the subject of insanity there are even a greater number of au- thorities quoted, and they agree. One observer, the superintendent of the Iowa state hospital for the insane, makes his report after examining 28,081 cases. ‘That sounds like thoroughness! Since the publication of these papers. which were read before the Medico-Legal Society, of New York, Deputy- Coroner Edward J. 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