The Anti-Tobacco Number of the “Instructor”

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 6, 1916

The Anti-Tobacco Number of the “Instructor”

Exposes the ambition-destroying, brain-dulling, nerve-deadening, vitality-sapping cigarette in such an effective manner that it deserves the support of all who know, with Ruskin, that “tobacco is the worst national curse of modern civilization;” of all who can say, with Whittier, “I feel a great interest in any effort to check the pernicious habit of tobacco using; it is not only a nuisance, but a moral and physical evil, and a shame to our boasted refinement and civilization;” of all who, through observation, are forced to admit that cigarette smoking is a short cut to the insane asylum; of all who can agree with Edison “that the tobacco smoker is a degenerate, retrograding toward the lower animal life;” and of all who would save the youth of this age from

The Overhanging Shadow of Nicotine — Death

April 20, the Day Appointed to Save the Boys

The Anti-Cigarette League has set April 20 for a special effort to be made in all churches against the cigarette habit among boys. On this day the Anti-Tobacco number of the Instructor should be placed in the possession of as many boys as possible. The superintendents of public schools and teachers in all grades should be visited, and some arrangements made for the Anti-Tobacco number of the Instructor to be placed in the hands of all the children. Many of the temperance people are as much interested in the tobacco habit as they are in the liquor traffic.

The prices in quantities are: 5 to 2,000 copies, one order, 2½ cents each; more than 2,000 copies, 2 cents each; single copy, 5 cents.

Burning the boys at the stake with “the devil’s kindling wood”