The Cheyenne Daily Leader

What Cigarettes Are Made of.

For some time past The Chicago Journal and The Evening News have been waging vigorous warfare against cigarettes. The Journal has printed a series of articles showing the large number of cigarettes that were sold by small shopkeepers to the public school pupils, and has had interviews with the principals of the various schools and with physicians, showing the extent and injury of the cigarette practice among young boys. The News has been investigating the composition and effect of cigarettes generally.

With this end in view a number of packages of each brand commonly used were purchased and stripped of the boxes, cards and every distinguishing mark. Each kind was put into a pasteboard box, the lid of which was inscribed with a letter. These were taken for analysis to Professor Delafontaine, a well known chemist.

He found that the cigarettes he tested were generally made of tobacco "imperfectly fermented," which means that an unusually large amount of nicotine was present in them. He found that nearly all had an unnatural proportion of insoluble ash, that several kinds were steeped in an injurious substance, and were impregnated with dirt in varying proportions.—New York Tribune.