the cigarette habit disqualifies the
student mentally, that it retards him in his studies, dwarfs his
intellect, and leaves him far behind those of inferior mental equipment
who do not indulge in the injurious use of tobacco in any form.

The mental, moral, and physical deterioration from the use of
cigarettes, has been noted by corporations and employers of labor
generally, until to-day the cigarette devotee finds himself barred from
many positions that are open to those of inferior capabilities, who are
not enslaved by the deadly habit.

Cigarette smoking is no longer simply a moral question. The great
business world has taken it up as a deadly enemy of advancement, of
achievement. Leading business firms all over the country have put the
cigarette on the prohibited list. In Detroit alone, sixty-nine
merchants have agreed not to employ the cigarette user. In Chicago,
Montgomery Ward and Company, Hibbard, Spencer and Bartlett, and some of
the other large concerns have prohibited cigarette smoking among all
employees under eighteen years of age. Marshall Field and Company, and
the Morgan and Wright Tire Company have this rule: "No cigarettes can
be smoked by our employees." One of the questions on the application
blanks at Wanamaker's reads: "Do you use tobacco or cigarettes?"

The superintendent of the Linden Street Railway, of St. Louis, says:
"Under no circumstances will I hire a man who smokes cigarettes. He is
as dangerous on the front of a motor as a man who drinks. In fact, he
is more dangerous; his nerves are apt to give way at any moment. If I
find a car running badly, I immediately begin to investigate to find if
the man smokes cigarettes. Nine times out of ten he does, and then he
goes, for good."

The late E. H. Harriman, head of the Union Pacific Railroad system,
used to say that they "might as well go to a lunatic asylum for their
employees as to hire cigarette smokers." The Union Pacific Railroad
prohibits cigarette smoking among its employees.

The New York, New Haven, and Hartford, the Chicago, Rock Island, and
Pacific, the Lehigh Valley, the Burlington, and many others of the
leading railroad companies of this country have issued orders
positively forbidding the use of cigarettes by employees while on duty.

Some time ago, twenty-five laborers working on a bridge were discharged
by the roadmasters of the West Superior, Wisconsin Railroad because of
cigarette smoking. The Pittsburg and