well as smoke; it will not probably be questioned 
that some of this watery solution is drawn into 
the mouth as well as the smoke and probably 
contains minute quantities of nicotine or its 
derivatives. 
The smoker may obviate any slight harmful 
effects of these substances by care. If he is a 
cigar smoker he must avoid chewing or sucking 
the butt end of the cigar in which the acqueous 
solution finally gathers, and he would find it 
better to smoke long thin cigars which afford 
a small area behind the burning point for the 
collection of acqueous vapor and give a better 
combustion. Judged from these viewpoints the 
best and most expensive thick cigar is likely to 
be more harmful than the very worst kind of a 
cigarette, for although there may be a much 
smaller percentage of nicotine in the cigar to- 
bacco, a much larger proportion of it may reach 
the mouth of the smoker through the water pro- 
duced by combustion, in the case of the cigar 
than in the case of the cigarette. 
Every cigar and cigarette smoker should use 
a holder for the reason stated. The cigarette 
from the nicotine point of view is the least ob- 
jectionable form of smoking. In fact expert 
opinion is recognizing that unless where the 
smoke is inhaled cigarette smoking if not ex- 
cessive is probably harmless. It is hard, of 
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