What the Cigarette Does

What the Cigarette Does

Harvey W. Wiley, M. D., tells mothers what they may expect of their boys, who at the age of ten, are beginning to find opportunities to acquire the cigaret habit, if they succeed in forming it. Here are a few of the pos- sibilities:

They will acquire a habit which may bring them into sympathetic asso- ciations with the boys who are going to the bad. They will be slaves to a habit which segregates them from the common crowd of trav lers and spectators. They will join the procession that is made up of marcher^ with hesi- tating steps, shaky hands, and palpitating hearts. They will unfit themselves for athletic sports and high attainments in their studies. They will exclude themselves from many activities leading to higher pay and preferment. They will waste large sums of money while doing themselves lasting, perhaps even fatal, injury. They will more readily become victims of alcohol, cocaine, opium, and other narcotic drugs. They will shorten their lives. Their presence will disclose itself to the nostrils of all their associates. They will weaken their resistance to disease and fall easy victims to in- fection.

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