WHISKEY ™ TOBACCO! 
The Two Great Evils of 
the Day! 
BY 
Dr. U. M. WEIDEMAN, Specialist, 
Station D, New York City, P. O. 
PUBLISHED BY 
A R B A LAN KTO N 'S 
TOTAL ABSTINENCE and ANTI-TOBACCO SOCIETY, 
HARTFORD, CONN. 
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sent to ARB A LANKTON, President, Sec'y and Treasurer, 2 Marsh Court, Hartford, Conn. and other large cities, laws have been 
passed prohibiting dealers from selling 
cigarettes to children, it is also true that 
these laws have quickly dropped into 
complete oblivion. 
The baneful effects upon the system of 
the virtulent poisons contained in cigar- 
ettes are recognized by the highest med- 
ical authorities, who also, agree that the 
parts most seriously effected are the brain, 
blood, and nervous system. The correct- 
ness of their theory being proven by the 
many cases of insanity, blood poisoning, 
nervous prostration, and even paralysis 
that have been traced directly to the 
habitual use of cigarettes. 
The skin of the cigarette habitue as- 
sumes a yellowish cast and breaks out in 
pimples and blotches; the digestive or- 
gans are impaired and the nervous system 
completely deranged. The victim grad- 
ually becomes emaciated, his appetite 
disappears, his mental faculties are 
weakened, and his condition 'soon be- 
comes pitiable indeed. 
In such cases ordinary remedial means 
are powerless. 
For this luxury we pay: for cigars and 
cheroots, $253,750,000; for cigarettes, $22,- 
332,000. This is apportioned for cigars, 
83 to each inhabitant or 415 for each male 
adult: cigarettes, 51 to each man, woman 
and child, or 250 to each male adult. 
But this does not include the millions 
of bowls of tobacco that are consumed 
in pipes. The figures for smoking tobacco 
cannot be separated from those for chew- 
ing tobacco. Combined we consume 
279,726,092 pounds of the fascinating 
weed, which costs us $139,663,036. Al- 
together, not taking stock of the money 
A MIGHTY SUM. 
What the People of this Country pay 
yearly for Tobacco and Spirits. 
The report of the internal revenue com- 
missioner for the past year on the amount 
of whiskey and beer we drink and tobacco 
we smoke is a truly marvelous revelation. 
According to this we consumed 87,000,000 
gallons of whiskey, brandy and distilled 
spirits; or, in other words, wedrank6,ooo,- 
000,000 glasses of whiskey, for which we 
paid over the bar the enormous sum of 
$609,000,000, or $50,000,000 more than 
the annual appropriations of Congress 
combined. This represents a consump- 
tion of 100 glasses of whiskey each year 
for every man, woman and child between 
the Pacific and the Atlantic, or, counting 
only male adults, 500 glasses for each. Of 
beer the figures are equally astounding. 
The consumption was 31,962,943 barrels- 
thatis, 12,785,169,200 glasses--represent- 
ing an expenditure of $617,258,460, or 
about $10 for each inhabitant. In the 
neighborhood of 230 glasses are charged 
up in this circulatian against each of us 
as our annual allowance. 
In the matter of cigars, cigarettes, 
smoking and chewing tobacco we are 
equally prodigal. 
The extent to which the cigarette evil 
is growing and its deteriorating influence 
upon the health is demanding more and 
more attention from the medical world, 
although it seems in a measure to have 
escaped the attention of the legal authori- 
ties. While it is true that in Philadelphia we expend for champagne, the people of 
the United States spend annually for drink 
and tobacco the almost incomprehensible 
sum of $1,641,903,460. The mind is in- 
capable of grasping the largeness of this 
total, but when it is remembered that this 
is more than the circulating medium of 
the United States; that is $27 per head 
more than the per capita circulation; that 
it proves the head of every family, sup- 
posing he handles the purse strings, pay 
out $195 annually for drink and tobacco, 
and that every dollar in the United States 
goes each year over the bar or the counter 
of som'e tobacconist, some idea of its mag- 
nitude can be obtained. 
These figures are official. 
with opium, while the wrapper, warranted 
to be rice paper, proved to be common 
white paper whitened with arsenic. An 
eminent physician pronounces cigarettes 
to be worse for boys than cigars, because 
the paper absorbs more of the nicotine. 
Nicotine is one of the subtlest of poisons. 
Dr. Brodie, Queen Victoria's physician, 
made several experiments with nicotine, 
applying it to the tongues of a mouse, a 
squirrel and a dog. Death was produced 
in every instance. Hold white paper 
over the smoke of a cigarette, scrape the 
condensed smoke from the paper and put 
a small quantity on the tongue of a cat, 
and in spite of its "nine lives'' it will in- 
stantly writhe in convulsions and die. 
Dr. Hammond gives it as his testimony 
that "no method for rendering existence 
painful is more efficacious than to smoke 
cigarettes and to inhale the fumes into 
the lungs. By this practice a very large 
absorbing surface is exposed to the action 
of nicotine and other poisonous products 
which are evolved when tobacco is 
burned. As a consequence the system is 
more thoroughly subjected to their influ- 
ence and disease more certainly pro- 
duced. The action of the brain is impair- 
ed thereby, the ability to think, and in 
fact, all mental concentration are weak- 
ened. Neuralgia, especially about the 
face, throat diseases, nasal catarrh, seri- 
ous affections of the eye, dyspepsia, and 
above all, interruption in the normal ac- 
tion of the heart, are among the conse- 
quences resulting from the inhalation of 
cigarette smoke." 
A distinguished French physician has 
investigated the effect of smoking on 38 
boys between the ages of 9 and 15 whq 
Tobacco In Its Most Deadly Form Is 
Making Mighty Inroads In the Ranks 
of Youth-Startling Facts. 
Look to the morals of your home. 
All the medical fraternities of the 
United States and Great Britain, allopa- 
thic, homoeopathic, hydropathic, eclectic 
and electric condemn cigarette smoking 
as one of the most destructive evils that 
ever befell the youth of any country, de- 
claring that its direct tendency is a deter- 
ioration of the race. The cigarette is 
overshadowing every other branch of the 
tobacco business. 
It is estimated that 700,000.000 ciga- 
rettes are manufactured annually in our 
country. Investigation has shown that 
cigarettes as a rule are adulterated and 
more injurious than tobacco. A physi- 
cian had a cigarette analyzed and found 
the tobacco to be strongly impregnated were addicted to the habit. Twenty- 
seven presented distinct gymptoms of 
nicotine poisoning. In 22 there were se- 
rious disorders of the circulation, indiges- 
tion, dullness of intellect and a marked 
appetite for strong drink. In 3 there was 
a heart affection, in 8 decided deteriora- 
tion of the blood. In 12 there was fre- 
quent bleeding of the nose; 10 had dis- 
turbed sleep and 4 had ulceration of the 
mouth. 
In New York, New Orleans and 
Chicago alone, one half million women 
and girls use cigarettes constantly; say- 
ing nothing of the other great cities; 
Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cincinnati, 
and the thousands of young boys, girls 
and young men in all the schools and 
colleges, who either openly or in secret 
are victims of this deadly vice. 
votee of the weed has graduated from 
Harvard at the head of his class, although 
above 83 per cent of the students are 
addicted to its use. 
A southern tobacconist stated to 
a New York Tribune representative that 
the extent to which drugs are used in 
cigarettes is appalling, and that "Havana 
flavoring" is sold by the thousand barrels, 
prepared from the tonka bean, which 
contains a deadly poison. Cigar wrap- 
pers are made from the filthy scrapings of 
ragpickers, arsenic being used in the 
bleaching process, while combustion de- 
velopes the oil of creosote. 
The use of tobacco in any form is an evil 
unmixed and without excuse. The chew- 
erisa slave and a nuisance; filthy to every 
one and a bore to himself. 
I knew a woman whose brain was so 
diseased by snuff that the odor of her 
person was unendurable to her own 
family. While an old clay pipe is a bane 
to the smoker; slowly but surely destroy- 
ingvitality and life by nicotine poisoning, 
and influencing an unceasing desire for 
strong drink. 
Fathers and Mothers what think 
you of this? 
Tobacco attacks the nervous system 
and thereby impairs the mental faculties. 
Dr. Willard Parker says, "Tobacco is 
ruinous in our schools, dwarfing the body 
and mind." At an examination for ad- 
mission to the Free College of New York, 
out of 900 girls 660, or 71 per cent, passed, 
while only 48 per cent, of the boys could 
enter, the difference being ascribed to 
the stupefying effects of tobacco. The 
effect of tobacco on schoolboys is so 
marked as not to be open for discussion. 
The classes of Yale are graded according 
to their scholarship. In the first division 
only 25 per cent, use tobacco; in the 
second 48, in the third 70, and in the low- 
est 85. During the last 50 years no de- 
Young Hen, Boys and Girls who use 
the poison, doesn't the danger worry 
you? 
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