The Cigarette Doomed. Observation in public places gives satisfactory evi dence that the use of cigarettes is rapidly on the decline. Whether this is due to the stringent laws passed in many of the States against selling them to minors or that smokers have come to their senses and have taken warning from their own experience and the unanimous condemnation of smoking cigarettes by the medical profession or whether the evil practice has begun to ie looked upon as a discreditable vice to be only prac ticed in secret we know not ; but it is certain that as compared with the past very few
The Cigarette Doomed. Observation in public places gives satisfactory evi dence that the use of cigarettes is rapidly on the decline. Whether this is due to the stringent laws passed in many of the States against selling them to minors or that smokers have come to their senses and have taken warning from their own experience and the unanimous condemnation of smoking cigarettes by the medical profession or whether the evil practice has begun to ie looked upon as a discreditable vice to be only prac ticed in secret we know not ; but it is certain that as compared with the past very few cigarettes are now smoked in public. Cigar dealers say that the sales of cigarettes have fallen off enormously. The manufac turers of these noxious things have been compelled to advertise largely to prevent the entire destruction of their business and about the only people who can now be seen smoking the paper abominations are a few moon-faced juveniles who imagine that cigarette smok ing gives them a literary aspect or who ambitiously aim at appearing manly and graceful while poisoning the atmosphere about them or blowing the offensive smoke through the windows of horse cars until rebuked by the conductors. Employers and business men gen erally have arrayed themselves in opposition to those who persist in the objectionable practice and young ladies have learned to understand that the real reason why their young men smoke cigarettes is that they can smoke twenty of them vile though they are for the price of a very cheap cigar. It will be well for our youth when the habit becomes wholly extinct. Dr. William L. Dudley Professor of Chemistry in the Van analytical experiments made by him in his laboratory with the smoke of an ordinary cigarette. The tests were thoroughly scientific and conclusive. The fact was demonstrated beyond the chance of doubt or ques tion that carbonic oxide is the chief constituent of cigarette smoke if not all tobacco smoke and that its inhalation into the air pass
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