Smoking on Passenger Cars
By The Truth
A PHILADELPHIA smoker removed the cigar from his mouth on entering the horse-car, but insisted on retaining it in his hand. The conductor warned him to throw it away, as the smoke from it was offensive to the women passengers, and finally ejected him by force. He sued the company for damages, but the verdict was against him, the court charging the jury that he was a nuisance which the conductor had a right to abate. The conductors of our city and suburban passenger railways should also be instructed to eject any man who brings into the car a cigar that had been partially smoked, because a cold cigar emits and fills the air with an odor not only disagreeable and offensive, but decidedly sickening, and we have more than once seen ladies leave a car, which we believe was because they had been made sick by the sickening odor arising from a cigar in a man's hand. Another very disgusting thing is the breath of a man who has been smoking. Frequently we have to sit opposite a man and endure this. If a man must smoke, when he gets in front of another let him breathe through his nose, and keep his mouth shut.—The Truth.