celerated by the use of tobacco, among which are the following:--
Heart disease, consumption, cancer, ulceration, asthma, bronchitis,
neuralgia, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, indigestion, dysentery,
diarrhoea, constipation, sleeplessness, melancholia, delirium
tremens, insanity.

Smoking frequently leads to prolonged suffering.
Smoking often destroys the appetite.
Smoking sometimes weakens the will power.
Smoking sometimes leads to loss of memory.
Smoking often leads to despondency.
Smoking sometimes leads to suicide.
Smoking frequently leads to loss--loss by bad health and waste of
valuable time--direct loss in money required for other purposes,
and immense loss through reckless, thoughtless, or unfortunate
smokers being the cause of partial or total destruction by fire of
buildings, ships, factories, homesteads, crops, stores, and
property of many kinds; also loss of life and property by
explosions in mines, explosive factories, powder magazines,
explosive stores, etc.

Tobacco using is an unclean habit, and offensive habit, an
enslaving habit, often it is an intensely selfish habit.
Tobacco fumes, especially in small and poorly-ventilated houses or
rooms, injure or destroy the health of multitudes of wives, and
injure the health of multitudes of infants and children.
Tobacco using injures the unborn child by giving it a puny body and
an imperfect start in life.
Tobacco using is fast degenerating the race.

A third of the recruits for the Army are disqualified through
smoking.

The following Governments have passes laws against juvenile smoking:
Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Japan, Canada, Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, the North West
Territories, Cape Colony, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia,
Tasmania, and about 48 of the States and Territories out of 53; and
so terrible and deplorable an effect has juvenile smoking upon the
race that most other Governments are considering the advisability of
passing laws against it.

The insidious influence of cigarette smoking by boys is shown in
these examples of handwriting, taken from a London Country Council
health report. The first was written by a boy when he was a victim of
the habit; the second is the same boy's writing when he had given it
up, ten months later.

[Illustration: Handwriting Samples.]

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