---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Harris, F. S.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 23
number: 11
published: 1920-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Harris, F. S., "The Cigarette Epidemic," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 11 (September 1920): 997.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23011unse
  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: improvementera23011unse
start_page: 997
end_page: 997
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23011unse
  publication_year: 1920
  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 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Cigarette Epidemic

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GUIDE FOR M. I. A. STUDIES AND ACTIVITIES                          1001

1. The Indispensability of Isolation.          9.   The Driving Power of Duty.
2. The Uplift of Adversity.                   10.   The Influence of Natural Environ-
3. The Push of Poverty    I.—                       ment.
4. The Push of Poverty      —
                          II.                 11. The Moulding Power of Vocation.
5. The Obligation of Wealth     I.   —        12. The Advantages of Custom.
6. The Obligation of Wealth— II.              13. The Helpfulness of Inheritance.
7. The  Developing Power of Re-               14. Freedom from Debt.
       sponsibility.                          15. The Control of Bias.
8.    The Sustaining Force      of   Cove-    16. The Pull of Prejudice.
       mints.                                 17.   Meeting Time's Tidal Waves.

                                 For All Classes
     The second part consists of the following combined course
of study for all members, except Boy Scouts and Bee-Hive Girls,
to be used during the months of April and May. Where convenient, and it is desirable to do so, the classes may be continued
as usual in grades or departments, the teachers of the various
classes adapting and modifying the lessons to suit the students
in their particular classes. The following are the lesson-headings for the second part of Vital Problems of Life:

18. Why Be Religious?                         22.   Why Choose the Church of Jesus
19. Why Believe in a Personal God?                  Christ of Latter-day Saints?
20. Why Believe in the Atonement?             23. Why Promulgate the Gospel?
21. Why Have a Church?                        24. Why Work On?

                          Seniors    —17 to 21 Inclusive
    Science and Religion will be the subject of the Senior
Manual. This is a revision of a former manual by Dr. John A.
Widtsoe, on Joseph Smith as Scientist, which will prove of great
interest to the Senior classes.              Titles to lessons follow:

       Subject:   Science and Religion.
       Title:   Joeph Smith as Scientist.
Lessons:
    I. Chapters 1 and 2)— Introductory; The Indestructibility of Matter.
    II. (Chapter 3)— The Indestructibility of Energy.
    III. (Chapter 4)—The Universal Ether.
    IV. (Chapter 5)— The Reign of Law.
                       —
    V. (Chapter 6) The New Astronomy.
    VI. (Chapter 7)— Geological Time.
                        —
    VII. (Chapter 8) Organized Intelligence.
    VIII. (Chapter 9)—Faith.
    IX. (Chapters 10, 11 and 12)—Repentance, Baptism and the Gift of the
Holy Ghost.
    X. (Chapter 13)—The Word of Wisdom.
    XL (Chapter 14)—The Law of Evolution.
    XII. (Chapter 15)—The Plan of Salvation.
    XIII. (Chapter 16)—The Sixth Sense.
    XIV. (Chapter 17)—The Nature of God.
    XV. (Chapter 18)—A Summary Restatement of Principles.
    XVI. (Chapter 19)—Joseph Smith's Education.
    XVII. (Chapter 20)— Concluding Thoughts.
     XVIII. (Chapter 21)—The Testimony of the Soil.