es: "First, cigarettes. Second, beer and liquors. Third,
craps--petty gambling. Fourth, horse-racing--gambling on a bigger
scale. Fifth, larceny. Sixth, state prison."

Another New York City magistrate says: "Yesterday I had before me
thirty-five boy prisoners. Thirty-three of them were confirmed
cigarette smokers. To-day, from a reliable source, I have made the
grewsome discovery that two of the largest cigarette manufacturers soak
their product in a weak solution of opium. The fact that out of
thirty-five prisoners thirty-three smoked cigarettes might seem to
indicate some direct connection between cigarettes and crime. And when
it is announced on authority that most cigarettes are doped with opium,
this connection is not hard to understand. Opium is like whisky,--it
creates an increasing appetite that grows with what it feeds upon. A
growing boy who lets tobacco and opium get a hold upon his senses is
never long in coming under the domination of whisky, too. Tobacco is
the boy's easiest and most direct road to whisky. When opium is added,
the young man's chance of resisting the combined forces and escaping
physical, mental, and moral harm is slim, indeed."

I think the above statement regarding the use of opium by manufacturers
is exaggerated. Yet we know that young men of great natural ability,
everywhere, some of them in high positions, are constantly losing their
grip, deteriorating, dropping back, losing their ambition, their push,
their stamina, and their energy, because of the cigarette's deadly hold
upon them.

Did you ever watch the gradual deterioration of the cigarette smoker,
the gradual withdrawal of manliness and character, the fading out of
purpose, the decline of ambition; the substitution of the beastly for
the manly, the decline of the divine and the ascendency of the brute?

A very interesting study this, to watch the gradual withdrawal from the
face of all that was manly and clean, and all that makes for success.
We can see where purity left him and was gradually replaced by
vulgarity, and where he began to be cursed by commonness.

We can see the point at which he could begin to do a bad job or a poor
day's work without feeling troubled about it.

We can tell when he began to lose his great pride in his personal
appearance, when he began to leave his room in the morning and to go to
his work without being perfectly groomed. Only a little while before
he would have been greatly