"The upper parts of your lungs are affected already, and you'll carry the work of destruction on rapidly.

Alf, if you ever live to be twenty you'll be a wreck at best.

Don't you know that ?" "I---I have heard folks say so," nodded the boy.
"And you didn't believe them ?" "I---I don't know." "Why did you ever take up smoking ?" "All men smoke," argued Alf Drew.
"Lie number one.

All men _don't_ smoke," Tom corrected him.
"But I think I catch the drift of your idea.

If you smoke you think men will look upon you as being more manly.