--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 11 published: 1918-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"What the Cigarette Does,\" *Improvement Era* 21, no. 11 (September 1918): 981–982." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera21011unse start_page: 981 end_page: 982 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse publication_year: 1918 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # 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. ^IIIIIIMIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllMinnillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllllllllllllllll'r