ANTI-CIGARET LEAGUE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 49.

ANTI-CIGARET LEAGUE.

November 24th was the day set apart by the American Anti-cigaret League as a day for delivering to the cigaret a genuine "body blow." The League confidently expected on that day to secure one million new members. It now numbers within its ranks 300,000 boys and girls who have pledged themselves not to smoke cigarets or use tobacco in any form until they are at least 21 years old. It is hoped that by the time they have reached that age, they will have seen so much of the folly of its use that they will have no desire ever to take it up. This effort is certainly a commendable one; for the cigaret is to-day blighting the life prospects of many thousands of boys. Nor are boys the only ones who fall victims to this vile and destructive habit; for in many places girls as well as boys have taken up the practise. The object for which the League is organized is one for whose success every well-wisher of humanity has a right to hope. As a result of the agitation carried on in various States against the cigaret, there has been a considerable falling off in its manufacture. In several States laws have been passed, making the sale of cigarets to minors unlawful.