many investigators that when not carried to 
excess the cigarette is the safest method of 
using tobacco. The reader is referred to the 
remarks regarding cigarettes in the chapter 
respecting the effect of tobacco on the human 
system; but it may be as well here to quote a 
recent editorial from one of the leading repre- 
sentative medical journals of the United States, 
the opinion stated in which should go far to- 
wards removing the absurd prejudice against 
the cigarette. 
From the New York Medical Journal of 
July 25, 1914 (Editorial) : 
“Particularly do the uninformed enjoy an 
attack on the cigarette; it is cheap; it is small; 
and its patrons, numerous as they are, yet form 
an insignificant minority in our immense popu- 
lation. Therefore, the cigarette and its users 
are fair game for cheap and silly sneers; sneers 
which are capable, however, of cowing an entire 
legislature, as in Georgia at this moment. Yet, 
beyond cavil, it has been proved scientifically 
that of all methods of using tobacco, cigarette 
smoking is the least harmful. Some months ago 
the Laucet undertook a careful laboratory 
study of the various ways of consuming tobacco, 
with the result that it was found that the cigar- 
ettes, Egyptian, Turkish and American, yielded 
the least amount of nicotine to the smoke 
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