WOMEN SMOKERS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 10.

WOMEN SMOKERS.

In a letter addressed to a lady in San Francisco, Prof. David Starr Jordan, of the Stanford University, says:—

I should say in regard to the smoking of women that those women who do not recognize the innate vulgarity of it would hardly be reached by argument. There is no question as to the injury to the nervous system produced by smoking, and this injury is, of course, greatest on persons of fine organization; but outside of that, the fact that a woman is tempted to smoke is evidence enough of her essential coarseness of nature, and those of us who admire fine and noble women are simply satisfied to pass her by on the other side. The average man, even tho a smoker himself, has this view of the case, whether he expresses it or not. Surely nothing is more repulsive to the majority of men than the breath of a woman tainted with nicotine or alcohol.

The above sentiment is surely worthy of consideration by the women; but if the “majority of men” are so sensitive to the unpleasant taint on the breath of a woman smoker, what about the effect of the breath of men smokers on the more delicate organs of the women? The manner in which the “majority of men” will sit or walk enveloped in smoke of their own puffing would seem to indicate that they would rather enjoy the company of a lady with a tobacco breath. But being so sensitive to a lady’s tobacco-tainted breath, they themselves ought to have more consideration for ladies and others who do not use the weed.