284 TOBACCO. 



The pulpit, in many cases, f smells to heaven' of 

 smoke ! The problem is one of gravity." 



Principal Hill, Cook Academy, Havana, N.Y. : 

 " The harmful effects of tobacco upon boys cannot 

 be overstated. I have personally known many 

 students whose capacity for intellectual work has 

 been well-nigh destroyed, and who have been 

 brought to the verge of idiocy by tobacco. I 

 am amazed that the church, that society, that 

 parents treat with indifference this menace to all 

 that makes life worth living. I do not hesitate to 

 say that I believe the f tobacco curse ' is as threat- 

 ening as the liquor traffic." 



Principal Sheldon, Normal and Training School, 

 Oswego, N.Y. : "The tendency of the tobacco 

 habit is to undermine both the health and morals 

 of the young. It is the direct road to intemper- 

 ance in the drinking habit." 



D. Webster Prentiss, M.D., president of the 

 Medical Society of the District of Columbia: "I 

 cannot express too strongly from a medical point 

 of view my opinion of the grave deleterious effects 

 of the use of tobacco, especially of cigarette smok- 

 ing, by young persons." 



The only son of the proprietor of a French 

 restaurant in New York recently died from ex- 

 cessive cigarette smoking. He began to smoke 

 when six years of age and the habit grew so upon 

 him that, his father says, with all his efforts to 

 break from it, "In three years I never saw him 



