The literary digest . ng the fight against the cigaret will be harderthan that against gambling, swearing, and other evils, becausemany women as well as men indulge in cigarets. But pastfailures and the new additions to the ranks of the smokers haveonly stirred up the foes of tobacco to greater zeal. The DeseretNews, speaking for the dominant religious body in Utah, praisesColorado Presbyterians for declaring for the national prohibitionof cigarets and predicts, in view of the success of the great fightagainst the liquor traffic, that the same measure of successagainst the desj)icable and dead
The literary digest . ng the fight against the cigaret will be harderthan that against gambling, swearing, and other evils, becausemany women as well as men indulge in cigarets. But pastfailures and the new additions to the ranks of the smokers haveonly stirred up the foes of tobacco to greater zeal. The DeseretNews, speaking for the dominant religious body in Utah, praisesColorado Presbyterians for declaring for the national prohibitionof cigarets and predicts, in view of the success of the great fightagainst the liquor traffic, that the same measure of successagainst the desj)icable and deadly cigaret will eventually bechronicled. Antilohacco workers have been especially active inIndiana, where a bill has been introduced in the legislature tomake any tobacco-user ineligible to public office. One member ofthis legislature has voiced his sentiments in a speech quotedin the daily papers: Smoking in all public places, including depots, all placeswhere people have to go to conduct business, as stores, barber-. MOIU-: shops, and offices, and in the streets where people have to pass,should be absolutely prohibited; not merely to the extent ofimposing a little fine, in which case the State becomes a partnerin the wrong, but by imprisonment at hard labor, that will reallymake the law effective. A cigaret fiend, a cigar fiend, nor a pipefiend, neither has any moral or sanitary right to put himselfin a position where people have to come into his presence to dobusiness. No tobacco fiend has any right to pollute the airanother breathes. This savage filth must cease in our boastedcivilization. A New Jersey organ of the liquor trade has quoted a few ofthe most striking arguments of antitobaeco campaigners asfollows: One million four hundred and fifty acres of good,productive land will this year be wasted in growing tobaccoimless you prevent it. The land could supply every grain need of our nation and its allies. The labor could sup-ply every labor shortage inAm
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