SOME CIGARET FIGURES.
The “hopeless handicap’’ which
cigaret smoking; puts on our youth im
pels Mr. C. W. Baines to ask in the
Philadelphia Sunday School Times
whether it is not “about time that our
Sunday school leaders were beginning
to sound the warning” against this
habit. With its “attendant evils, the
saloon and vice,” he says, it is “sap
ping the mental and moral stamina
of America’s young men, gnawing at
the very vitals of their physical well
being.” Teachers thruout the country,
we read, recognize in the cigaret “the
school’s dealiest foe, and confess
without reservation that they find it
practically impossible to educate a
cigaret-smoking boy.” Nor has the
writer any toleration for the state
ment, “as fallacious as it is prevalent,”
that while cigarets may be harmful
to boys, they do not injure young men.
He cites from the records of Harvard
University the fact that “for fifty
years not one tobacco user has stood
at the head of his class, altho five out
of six (83 per cent) Harvard students
use the weed.” On the whole, accord
ing to the writer, cigarets hurt in
some way “every one who smokes
them,” and he is dismayed to find the
habit on the increase, as one may
judge from the government report
which shows that in 1913 “we con
sumed the amazing number of 14,530,-
486,200” cigarets, “an increase of 2,-
186,633,708 over the previous ‘banner
cigaret year.’ ”
“This means that we smoked 39,809,-
551 ‘coffin-nails’ each day. The money
value of our 1913 cigaret crop was no
less a sum than $72,781,626. To take
care of this rapid increase in the num
ber of cigarets consumed last year, a
conservative estimate is that it must
have required that at least 1,500
American boys fell victims to the de-
vasting cigaret-smoking habit each
day of the year. Not only so, but it
is unquestionably true that the habit
is annually sending to the saloons at
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least 100,000 (one in five) of these
boys to keep up the grind of the ‘gin-
mills,’ to be turned into drunkards and
bums, who will populate our jails, mis
treat their wives, neglect their chil
dren, and disgrace their homes and
parents a few years hence. Dr. Den
nis of Cornell Medical School says:
‘The tendency to beer drinking is
greatly strengthened by cigaret smok
ing, because this habit becomes al
most constant, causing a dryness of
the throat and fauces, and hence irri
tating the throat.’ ”
Another baleful effect of cigaret
smokning ; we are told, that it leads
“more of our boys to the police and
juvenile courts than all other habits
combined,” and we read of a city
magistrate who says: “Out of 300
boys brought before me charged with
various crimes, 295 were cigaret
smokers.” Yet even granting that not
every boy who smokes cigarets be
comes a criminal, the writer goes on
to say, every such boy suffers costly
impairment of efficiency. As for the
college man who smokes, compared
with the non-smoker, we read as fol
lows of an assemblage of 201 students:
“These 201 college students were
divided into three groups: Habitual
smokers, 41 students, 20.4 per cent;
occasional smokers, 52 students, 25.9
per cent; Non-smokers, 108 students,
53.7 per cent.
“Note that more than one-half of
the men who pursued their studies to
the point of entering college were non-
smokers. (Non-smokers -enter col
lege about one year younger than
smokers.)
“Of the total college enrollment, 31
students were either dropt or required
to take an extra year to complete the
prescribed course of study. Of these
31 men the habitaual smokers (20.4
per cent) supplied 16 students, or 51.6
per cent; the occasional smokers
(25.9 per cent) supplied eight stu
dents, or 25.8 per cent; the non-
smokers (52.7 per cent) supplied sev
en students, or 22.6 per cent.
“While the smokers constituted but
46.3 per cent of the student body, they
supplied more than 77 per cent of the
dull students of the institution. Many
of them lost a year before entering
college, and then required an extra
year to complete the course. Smokers
leave college about two years older
than non-smokers.
“In this college 41 men ere classed
as athletes, as follows: Habitual
smokers, nine men; occasional smok
ers, 15 men; non-smokers, 17 men. .
“The smokers supplied 24 athletes
in all, or 58 per cent of the athletes
—25.9 per cent of their enrollment.
The non-smokers furnished 17 men
out of their enrollment of 108. While
less than 16 per cent of the non-
smokers were athletes, yet they won
nearly one-half, or 41.9 per cent of
all athletic honors.”—Literary Digest.
BESIDE THE SLAIN.
Here in this leafy place,
Quiet he lies.
Cold, with his sightless face
Turned to the skies;
’Tis but another dead;
All you can say is said.
Carry his body hence;
Kings must have slaves;
Kings climb to eminence
Over dead men’s graves.
So this man’s eye is dim;
Throw the earth over him.
Ah, if beside the dead
Slumbered the pain!
Ah! if the hearts that bled
Slept with the slain!
If the grief died. But no—
Death will not have it so!
—Austin Dobson.
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