Watson has worked on these conditioned reflexes. Let the young baby have a rat. It is not afraid and will play with it happily. But some day produce a blinding flash of light or a loud noise just as you give it the rat and you have imbedded a conditioned reflex which may last its life. It will always fear rats. Watson holds that education should address itself to the job of making our conditioned reflexes of such nature that they are helpful rather than a hindrance. Thus a certain man cannot think unless he plays with the keys in his pocket. That is the original stimulus which sets his benign conditioned reflexes in motion. Another smokes in order to think deeply. A third smokes and finds that it is laxative. Perhaps these men cannot either think or avoid constipation unless they smoke, and the probable reason is that the act of smoking is an original stimulus which automatically sets in motion a long series of conditioned reflexes of a benign character. Yet there are people who do not want to run any risks. They want to avoid nicotine. Perhaps it is as well that they should. They therefore buy cigarettes or cigars or tobacco which have been “denicotinized.” To what extent do they succeed in avoiding the poison then? The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 295, a prosaic scientific-looking thing, pretty well explodes the bunk of these tobaccos and it calls a spade a spade. More power to the research agencies of the U. S. A. which dare be so outspoken. A brief analysis of the results shown seems in order. Tobaccos were analyzed for nicotine and the percentage given is in all cases on a dry basis. First tested were several common brands of cigarettes. They ran as follows in nicotine. Take your pick hereafter when you buy-- Cigarette. Percent Nicotine. Egyptian Deities 1.28 Pall Mall 1.38 Philip Morris 1.40 Lucky Strike 1.88 Camel 2.21 Old Gold 2.17 Capstan Navy Cut 2.30 Chesterfield 2.53 Piedmont 2.89 Since not even physicians have had any idea how much nicotine common brands of cigarettes carried this alone is important. Now how did the “denicotinized” cigarettes line up? They ran as follows: “Denicotinized” Percent Cigarette. Nicotine Sano 2.32 Cestrada Virginia 2.10 Dormy Turkish 1.19 Sackett 1.02 Next I shall list the cigars and the smoking tobacco analyzed-- Normal Reyes de Espana 1.16 Manila 1.31 Knickerbocker 1.90 “Denicotinized”