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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. [Page 203--Smoking Land] 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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