Welcome to the book Twelve Reliable Lessons on Cigarettes (1931), by Carrie H. L. Flatter. To go to the "Table of Contents" immediately, click here.
Tobacco pushers and their accessories in politics conceal the breadth of tobacco effects, the enormity of the tobacco holocaust, and the long record of documentation.
The concealment process is called the "tobacco taboo." Other pertinent words are "censorship" and "disinformation."
Here is the text by Carrie H. L. Flatter () of an early exposé (1931) of tobacco dangers. It cites facts you don't normally ever find reported, due to the "tobacco taboo."
The phrase "tobacco taboo" is the term for the pro-tobacco media's censorship policy—to not report most facts about tobacco.
As you will see, information about the tobacco danger was already being circulated in 1931, 96 years before the famous 1964 Surgeon General Report. Be prepared.

Twelve Reliable Lessons on Cigarettes
by Carrie H. L. Flatter
(Xenia, Ohio: TACAA, 1931)

CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH

Your possibilities make us salute you.
Your sincerity makes us trust you.
Your eagerness makes us teach you.
Your sweetness makes us love you.

TO YOU WE LEAVE THE BEST WE HAVE,
Information

TO YOU WE GIVE THE MOST WE HAVE,
Care

WITH YOU WE SHARE THE FIRST WE HAD,
Faith

TO YOU WE COMMEND THE GREATEST WE HAVE,
God

WITH THESE TO BUILD THAT FINEST MONUMENT,
Character

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KEYNOTE

"To BE MY BEST TODAY, that is my wish, that a
FAIRER tomorrow for me may exist."

"The soul that lives most perfectly in the
present, creates most nobly for the future."

"Be your best self today regardless of what
happened yesterday."

"Be all that you are or can be today, and you
will live in a fairer world tomorrow."

—LARSON.

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THE CIGARET

Now just what is the cigaret ?
What is its paper, its filling?

What comes from each
And what their effects ?
From this book you'll learn, if you're willing.

Children want it. Teachers need it.
Preachers and parents all should heed it—
The, Knowledge. This Book Contains.

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Table of Contents
Childhood and Youth   iii
Keynote   iv
The Cigarette   vi
Introduction to the Author    1
Introduction    4
Dedication    5
Prelude    7
LESSON I
Contents of the Cigaret
    9
LESSON II
A Short History of Tobacco
  15
LESSON III
The Cigaret and the Circulation
  21
LESSON IV
The Cigaret and the Brain
  31
LESSON V
Effects of Furfurol in Cigaret Smoke
  44
LESSON VI
The Eyes and Other Sense Organs
  51
LESSON VII
Cigarets and Education
  60
LESSON VIII
Cigarets and Morals
  69
LESSON IX
Cigaret Smoke Affects Nonsmokers
  76
LESSON X
The Cigaret and Your Future Success
  85
LESSON XI
The Latest Fad
  92
LESSON XII
Results
  98
Educational Campaign
106
A Few Statistics
109
Treatment of the Cigaret and Tobacco Habit
111

DR. J. KNOX MONTGOMERY, President of
Muskingum College and President of The Anti-
Cigaret Alliance of America, introduces the Author

CARRIE H. LIVINGS FLATTER belongs to a family of educators among whom were Horace Mann and Charles W. Eliot. She takes no credit for having been a good teacher, climbing high in her profession, but she says she could not help it.—"It runs in the blood." Her life has been filled with events from which she has gleaned much of human character.

Childhood and youth have always interested her and led to much research work concerning the processes of their development and the things which hindered their highest and best.

In her county, state, and national W. C. T. U. lecture work, she developed a great desire to help remove the use of all narcotics from the path childhood must travel in becoming citizens. This led to an exhaustive study of narcotics by investigation and scientific research work. For twenty years her spare time was used in discovering the contents, products, and effects of the latest commonly used narcotics, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and cigarets. In her careful study of and her experiments with cigaret smoke, she became increasingly impressed with the fact that ignorance concerning the effects of the use of cig

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arets made it possible for the cigaret interests to secure the children and youth as well as women and men as customers for their trade and that if this ignorance continued it would endanger the welfare of the home, the school, the church, and the nation itself thru the effects of more general use of cigarets, especially in childhood, by lowering the standards of America, destroying care, and breeding criminality.

Her decision was then made to give the powers God had given her to getting the truth to the youth and to all the people. Soon after the union of forces interested in an educational campaign to protect the children from the cigaret was organized by a union of twelve organizations having been active in anti-cigaret and tobacco work, she found herself the Executive Secretary of this union called The Anti-Cigaret Alliance of America, which office she has faithfully administered for the past five years. In spite of many discouragements she persisted in keeping this subject before the public and at the request of many educators, began the publication of the A. C. A. Herald, a monthly paper containing special lessons on the cigaret, which has had unprecedented growth in circulation and of which she became Editor-in-chief.

By those of us who know her best, she stands

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out as a woman of culture, poise, unswerving devotion, great faith, and mental ability. The editorship of the A. C. A. Herald has revealed her literary talent, but above all stands out her persistent and tireless aggressive progressiveness and her unlimited self-sacrifice to whatever cause may help childhood and youth to become real men and women. It is with confidence and pleasure that we thus introduce Mrs. Flatter in the first pages of her new book, Twelve Reliable Lessons on Cigarets, to its readers, believing that this book contains the information that teachers and parents are so anxious for the children and youth to have concerning the effects of cigaret use physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually.

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[In interim, pending completion of this site,
you can obtain this book via your local library.]

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, by G. F. Witter, M.D. (1881)
Death in Cellophane,
by Charles L. Van Noppen (1937)
What You Should Know About Tobacco,
by Frank L. Wood, M.D. (1944)
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