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Tobacco pushers and their accessories 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." The "No-Nicotine Alliance" sponsored this book against tobacco hazards. The text is by NNA President Richard J. Walsh. It is an early exposé (1924) of tobacco dangers. It cites facts you don't normally ever see, due to the "tobacco taboo." The phrase "tobacco taboo" is the term for the pro-tobacco censorship policy—to not report most facts about tobacco. This 1924 item was written as "a handbook of easy reference for platform use by speakers and organizers against the evils of tobacco." As you will see, information about the tobacco danger was already being circulated in 1924, 40 years before the famous 1964 Surgeon General Report. Be prepared. |
The Burning Shame of America:
An Outline Against Nicotine
by Richard J. Walsh
(Mt. Vernon, NY: William Rudge Pub, 1924)
"Tobacco is a filthy weed,
The Devil he doth sow the seed."
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PERMISSION TO QUOTE
Friends of our cause of anti-nicotine will be
given permission to freely quote from this
little book, upon application to the publisher.
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The Evil Spirit of Nicotine | 2 |
Foreword | 5 |
I. A Bad "Stunt" | 8 |
Effect of Tobacco On A Lily | 9 |
II. Money Talks | 10 |
The Modest Girl | 11 |
III. Primrose Pathfinders | 12 |
A Rich Man's Club | 13 |
Map Showing Area Wasted in Growing Tobacco | 14 |
IV. Arson Galore | 16 |
Conflagration Caused By A Smoker | 17 |
V. The Brutal Parent | 18 |
How A Father Harms His Child | 19 |
VI. Bad Citizens | 20 |
Unfortunate Street Encounter | 21 |
VII. Facilis Descensus | 22 |
One "On" Sir Walter Raleigh | 23 |
VIII. Erring Sisters | 24 |
A Fast New York Cafe | 25 |
IX. Amend the Constitution! | 26 |
Our President | 27 |
Ed. Note: For verification, see this historical summary of the extent of the "stunting young manhood": “roughly one man in four was accepted for military service; another one in four was found defective but fit for partial military service. The remaining 50 percent were not strong enough, tall enough or bright enough for the army to do anything with them,” says Geoffrey Perret, A Country Made by War (New York: Random House, 1989), p 316.
For more background data citing the pattern of such tobacco-caused debilities, 1898-1912, see the Austin v Tennessee case, and related military unfitness examples. |
Ed. Note: See also " How the Tobacco Industry Killed American Soldiers in World War 2." |
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"I would be yours, aye, until death,
Were nicotine not on your breath."
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"In rich men's clubs, the youth begins
To smoke, and soon learns other sins."
"The 'black blots' on this map show how
tobacco-growing ravages our agriculture. these
are the infested districts where the rich soil is
wasted on the weed. Why not use them for
something that can be ett?"
"Gaze at the map and see what useful foods
grow where tobacco isn't. Millions of acres
of onions, asparagus, squash, spinach and other
diets do not appear. The curse of our agriculture is nicotine."
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"The butt by wanton smoker tossed
Has kindled many a holocaust."
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"Besotted Father, who defiled
The air around his helpless child."
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"Vile men who smoke upon the street
Are not the kind I care to meet."
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"One 'On' Sir Walter Raleigh
This is an exact reproduction of an old wood-cut.
It shows the famous scene in which Raleigh's servant,
first seeing him smoking, thought he was on
fire, and threw a bucket of beer on him. We should
treat all smokers thus, except that we should use
water, not strong drink, to quench them."
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"In one New York cafe
Even the women smoke, they say."
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2 The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article, by appropriate legislation, and to appoint enforcement officers in every community.
"President K. K. Jones of the No-Nicotine Alliance,
who says: 'Let us amend the Constitution to stomp
out Nicotine!' President Jones was born in and has
lived all his entire life in Illyria, Illinois; a life of
sweetness and purity which gives him fitness for
the great office he now fills to the full."
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