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night time or day time without a cigar in his 

 mouth." 



President Barnard, Columbia College, New 

 York: "The free use of tobacco in all its forms, 

 but especially in the form of cigarettes, is doing 

 much to undermine the health of the rising genera- 

 tion, and is nearly as noxious as the giant evil, 

 drunkenness." 



It has been shown that throughout the United 

 States during the past year, 1891, there have been 

 about one hundred deaths of young men, mostly 

 under sixteen years of age, from the effects of 

 cigarettes. In some cases there has been an anal- 

 ysis of the stomach, and in most instances there 

 have been found phosphorus and arsenic, which 

 are largely used in the manufacture of cigarette 

 paper. About a hundred have also been con- 

 signed to insane asylums for the same cause. 



Henry C. Spencer, principal Spencerian Busi- 

 ness College, and Sara A. Spencer, vice principal : 

 " In our thirty years' experience in teaching more 

 than fifty thousand young people, we have found 

 the effects of this narcotic to be precocious devel- 

 opment of evil passions, premature age, shattered 

 nerves, mental weakness, stunted growth, and 

 general physical and moral degeneracy, and there- 

 fore now decline to receive into this institution any 

 who use this noxious weed." 



Rev. A. C. Amaron, president of the French 

 Protestant College in Springfield, Mass., tells me 



