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Massachusetts Sunday Tobacco Sales Case Decided

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 5, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 23.

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Massachusetts Sunday Tobacco Sales Case Decided

IN Massachusetts the tobacco stores were prohibited from selling cigars or tobacco on Sunday. The drug stores being allowed to be open, continued to sell cigars on Sunday. Then the tobacco dealers prosecuted the drug dealers for selling cigars on Sunday. The question was carried to the Supreme Court. The court sustained the contention of the tobacco dealers, with the loophole, however, that “it may be that, with or without a prescription from a physician, one may lawfully purchase tobacco or cigars as medicine at a drug store on the Lord’s day.”