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cans who evidently consider smoking essential to 

 manliness. And, alas, our police have no orders 

 to forbid it. 



For a gleam of dawning light, however, we will 

 thank God and take courage. >Ve catch this ffleam 

 in an act of the Xew Jersey legislature on this sub- 

 ject, entitled K An act prohibiting the sale of ciga- 

 rettes or tobacco in any of its forms to minors." 

 And now " every person who sells the narcotic in 

 any form to a boy or girl under sixteen years of 

 age is liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for each 

 and every offence." 



HARD BREAKIXG-IX. 



How emphatically nature protests against this 

 alien, almost every tobacco-user can testify. I 

 give but a single instance. 



In a neighborhood of smoking boys, Dio Lewis 

 made an experiment on a lad who had never used 

 the weed, giving him a pill of plug-tobacco to 

 chew. Instantly, before he had swallowed a par- 

 ticle, he grew fearfully sick, became pale as death, 

 while a cold swent crept over him, and soon, in 

 the midst of violent retchings, he had to be carried 

 into the open air. 



Yet what pains are taken and what obstacles 

 conquered in forming the habit ! A lady met on 

 the street a three-year-old with a black stick in 

 his mouth. She begged him to throw it away, 

 promising him a nice present if he would ; but 

 he held on to his stick, asserting that he "liked 



