♪ ♪
Come all you young people
and listen to me,
Never smoke cigarettes or ♪
a corpse you will be,
For once it was smart, but ♫
now it’s forlorn,
And smoking will kill you
as sure as you’re born!
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The cartoon was drawn by Bob Chambers, who worked for the Halifax Chronicle Herald. It is presumed the ditty was written by him also.
Judy LaMarsh Niagara Falls resident, who became the federal Minister of Health from 1963-1965.