Who’s Smoking?

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 4, 1916

RECENTLY a fond mother detected tobacco smoke about the basement, and asked the laundry-woman, “Who’s smoking?” The mother was shocked to find it was her son Harold, a boy of ten years.

About a year ago this mother refused to handle the Temperance Annual because it dealt with the tobacco question. She said her husband used tobacco, and she was afraid of offending him. But now Harold has become a victim of the habit, and she believes her fear of offense has brought to other mothers the same sorrow that has come to her, because her refusal to place the Instructor in the homes of her neighbors left the neighbors’ boys and their parents off their guard. The neighbor boys began to smoke, and led Harold into the habit against his mother’s instructions.

This mother now feels that in unselfish service for others one best saves his own. She believes in the generous circulation of the Anti-Tobacco number of the Instructor.