No Smoker Need Apply

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1881

No Smoker Need Apply.

I was sitting in the office of a mechanic not long since, when a lad about sixteen entered with a cigar in his mouth. He said to the gentleman: "I would like to get a situation in your shop to learn the trade, sir." "I might give you a place, but you carry a very bad recommendation in your mouth," said the gentleman. "I didn't think it any harm to smoke, sir; nearly everybody smokes now." "I am sorry to say, my young friend, I can't employ you. If you have money enough to smoke cigars, you will be above working as an apprentice; and if you have not money, your love for cigars might make you steal it. No boy who smokes cigars can get employment in my shop."— Children's Paper.