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tobacco. Declining to do this, he applied to the 

 New York Life Insurance, but that company made 

 the same requirement." 



Says Dr. L. R. Jerome, La Grange, HI. : "For 

 twenty years I have been largely engaged in med- 

 ical examinations for life insurance, and it is aston- 

 ishing how many men have the 'tobacco heart.' 

 Insurance companies are beginning to see the dan- 

 ger of such symptoms and to reject for that cause." 



STREET CAR SMOKING. 



The nuisance of street car smoking has become 

 so intolerable that the travelling public, whose 

 patience in all this matter has been amazing, is 

 becoming aroused. Appeals to the officials con- 

 cerned have proved ineffective from the persistence 

 of offenders and the reluctance of conductors and 

 corporations to displease their patrons. The press, 

 however, has at last attacked the nuisance, and 

 if the warfare is vigorously continued, street-car 

 smoking will certainly be banished. 



NO SMOKING ALLOWED. 



This salutary interdiction is being posted in 

 some of our factories, owing to the higher prem- 

 ium that our insurance companies are beginning 

 to require of the manufacturers who allow smoking 

 in their establishments. May this wholesome pro- 

 scription be introduced into every factory through- 

 out the land ! 



