e.
Enjoying the Tobacco Poison.
[Illustration: Shortly Afterwards.]
Shortly Afterwards.
Suffering from the Tobacco Poison.
[Illustration: A Youth stunted, wasted and wasting by Cigarette
Smoking.]
[Illustration: Twin Brothers.]
Twin Brothers.
Brother who Smoked, thereby destroying his Vital Organs, his Good
Looks, and Stunting his Body.
Brother who Didn't Smoke, and therefore grew Good-Looking, Big,
Healthy and Strong.
Multitudes of Employers, both in England and America, will not employ
Boy Smokers, and publicly announce the same.
[Illustration: Boy Smokers Seeking Employment.]
[From the "Social Gazette," also from the "Australian War Cry."]
The following statements show some of the large establishments that
are closed against cigarette smokers in America:--
"Swift & Co. (Packing House, Chicago), and other Chicago business
houses, employing hundreds of boys, have issued this announcement,
or similar ones--_So impressed with the danger of Cigarette using
that we do not employ a Cigarette user._
Marshall Field, the Mammoth Universal Provider, gave similar
notice.
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Montgomery, Ward and Co., the universal providers, say, "We will
not employ cigarette users."
"Morgan and Wright Tyre company, large employers, announce, "No
cigarettes can be smoked by our employees."
"At John Wanamakers.--The application blank to be filled out by
boys applying for a position reads: 'Do you use tobacco or
cigarettes?' A negative answer is expected, and is favourable to
their acceptance as employes."
"Heath and Milligan, Chicago, bar cigarette users."
"Carson, Pirie and Scott, Chicago, bar cigarette smokers as
employes."
Ayer's Sarsparilla Company, Lovell, employs hundreds of boys.
--"March 1, 1902--Believing that the smoking of cigarettes is
injurious to both mind and body, thereby unfitting young men for
their best work--therefore after this date we will not employ any
young man under twenty-one years of age who smokes cigarettes."
"I've got a boy for you, sir." Glad of it; who is he?" asked the
master workman of a large establishment. The man told the boy's
name and where he lived. "Don't want him," said the master workman,
"he has got a bad mark." "A bad mark, sir; what?" "I meet him every
day with a cigar in his mouth; I don't want smokers!"
"The Lehigh Valley Railroad bars cigarette smokers."
"The Chicago, Rock Island, and Paci
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