The Cigarette

New York, New York, 1932. Very good. Toned, water staining. Chip to lower right-hand corner of upper wrapper.. A passionate attack on cigarette smoking, highlighting its addictive nature and detrimental health effects, published in 1932: "Not one person in a thousand knows anything about the evils of this habit ... Perhaps no campaign has been more insidious" (p.1). Focuses on corporate greed, birth defects, and the financial drain it presents to users. Of most interest, however, is the lower printed wrapper, which bears the results of a study of forty boys in a New York City school. Twenty smoked, and twenty did not; the twenty who did overwhelmingly showed the following symptoms or perceived moral failings that the study attributed to smoking: Nervous; Impaired hearing; Poor memory; Bad manners; Low deportment; Poor physical condition; Bad moral condition; Street loafers; Out nights; Careless in dress; Truants; Low ranks in studies; Failed in promotion; Older than average of grade; Untruthful; Slow thinkers; Poor workers or not able to work continuously. Fourth edition.
Single volume (6" by 3.5"), pp. 16, stapled in original printed wrps.