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The following is from a public journal : " Park- 

 ham Adams, aged fourteen, a student in the Uni- 

 versity of Tennessee, is dying. He smoked forty 

 cigarettes, and inhaled the smoke on a wager." 



A young man exhibited symptoms of heart- 

 disease, the pulsations sometimes almost ceasing, 

 and again so accelerated that he could scarcely 

 catch his breath, and seemed on the point of 

 dying. On consulting a doctor, he was told 

 that all these symptoms came from the use of 

 cigarettes, and on banishing them his health was 

 soon restored. 



Sa}'s an eminent doctor : "We look upon the ciga- 

 rette as a leading demoralization of the last twenty- 

 five years." 



From the Philadelphia Times we learn that 

 several leading physicians in that city " unani- 

 mously condemn cigarette-smoking as one of the 

 vilest and most destructive evils that ever befell 

 the youth of any country ; " declaring that K its 

 direct tendency is a deterioration of the race." 

 One of these physicians affirms that within a single 

 week he had two patients who had been made blind 

 by cigarettes, while he knew several other cases 

 of the same kind. 



There are in the city of Xew York a good many 

 tf cigar-butt grubbers," as they are termed, that is, 

 boys and girls who scour the streets for stumps 

 and half-burnt cigars, which are dried and then 

 sold to be used in making cigarettes. A religions 

 weekty of that city is responsible for the following 



