next life.
 During the last few thousand years Ci­vi­li­za­tion has almost wrecked the human race. It has produced more degrading habits among human beings than the millions of preceding years of Barbarism and Savagery combined.
 During the past fifty years the American people have become addicted to a malignant vice that was almost unknown to them previously. That is the CIGARETTE HABIT. Yes, red blooded Americans in those days considered it a disgrace for man, woman or child to smoke those “Coffin Nails.”
 This writer remembers an experience, while playing with a professional Base Ball Club when he was a young man, which showed how athletes in those days looked upon the “filthy habit.”
 A new player had just joined the club and after his first game, while undressed in the Clubhouse ready to get under the showers, he lit a cigarette and started blowing smoke from his mouth and nose.
 At the sight of it one of the players bellowed out, “Well for ___________ _________ will you look at that. Fellows, do you see the same thing that I see?” Then a half dozen players grabbed the frightened imp and threw him out of the door, naked, and into the open field. Then one of the ball players threw his clothes after him and threatened to kill him if he ever came back again. The last seen of that cigarette smoker was when he ran around the Grand Stand with his clothes in his arms but not a “stitch” covering his back.
 A few years after that incident it became evident to this writer that the cigarette manufacturers were gradually enticing the American people, through big bill-board and full-page Magazine and Newspaper advertisements, to become addicts to the cigarette habit. So he offered to write a series of free articles advocating a congressional bill that would make it unlawful to sell or manufacture cigarettes in America, in order to save the people of this nation from slipping into its dire pitfalls.
 However, no newspaper or magazine manager dared accept the offer to stop the vice at its source. Now this country is paying horrible penalties in lost manhood, womanhood and childhood for not looking ahead and preventing the vice before it had sunk its deadly fangs into the hearts and souls of the people.
 The inexorable law of MA­NEU­VER­A­BIL­ITY, however, has again proved that for every act there is a re-act for better or worse, and, in the cigarette vice it has proved by its reactions that it is decidedly for the worst.
 Fifty years ago there were less than fifty thousand cigarette addicts in America while today there are more than Fifty Million of them. Now the output of manufacturers aggregate more than Two Hundred and Thirty Billion cigarettes annually.
 This enormous increase in the number of