ho is tempted to indulge in the first cigarette
ask himself--Can I afford to take this enormous risk? Can I jeopardize
my health, my strength, my future, my all, by indulging in a practise
which has ruined tens of thousands of promising lives?

Let the youth who is tempted say, "No! I will wait until mind and body
are developed, until I have reached man's estate before I will begin to
use tobacco." Experience proves that those who reach a robust manhood
are rarely willing to sacrifice health and happiness to the cigarette
habit.

Many years ago an eminent physician and specialist in nervous diseases
put himself on record as holding the firm belief that the evil effects
of the use of tobacco were more lasting and far reaching than the
injurious consequences that follow the excessive use of alcohol. Apart
from affections of the throat and cancerous diseases of lips and tongue
which frequently affect smokers there is a physical taint which is
transmitted to offspring which handicaps the unfortunate infant "from
its earliest breath."

The only salvation of the race, said this physician, lay in the fact
that women did not smoke. If they too acquired the tobacco habit
future generations would be stamped by the degeneracy and depravity
which follow the use of tobacco as surely as they follow the use of
alcohol.

In view of these facts the increase of cigarette smoking among women
may well alarm those who have at heart the wellbeing of the rising
generation. So rapidly has this habit spread that fashionable hotels
and cafes are providing rooms for the especial use of those women who
like to indulge in an after-dinner cigarette. A noted restaurant in
New York recently added an annex to which ladies with their escorts
might retire and smoke. We often see women smoking in New York hotels
and restaurants.

Not long ago the writer was a guest at a dinner and to his surprise
several ladies at the table lighted their cigarettes with as much
composure as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

At a reception recently, I saw the granddaughter of one of America's
greatest authors smoking cigarettes.

What a spectacle, to see a descendant so nearly removed from one of
Nature's grandest noblemen, a princely gentleman, smoking! And I said
to myself, "What would her grandfather think if he could see this?"

On a train running between London and Liverpool, a compartment
especially reserved for women smokers has bee