(Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1915)
Good Ole Days –Infection Through Cigar Cutters
When it is recognized how easily the cigar cutter may be the means of spreading infection, and infection of a dangerous nature, the days of this article of convenience will be numbered. To illustrate: a person will often, after he has first held his cigar in his mouth, step to the counter and put his cigar into the cutter.
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This thoughtless yet dangerous habit is so common that it can be witnessed time after time at every cigar stand. Undoubtedly it has been one of the principal means of spreading infection among those who smoke cigars, and it is high time that an agent so potent for harm was abolished. (American Medicine)
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