The Smoking Nuisance

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 8, 1875

The Smoking Nuisance.

It meets us everywhere. In street and railroad cars, boat-cabins, on Broadway and in eating-houses, the smokers, losing all sense of decency and propriety by the deadening influence of the filthy weed, puff their smoke in the faces of everybody, and fill the air with the foul, disgusting nuisance. We have been driven from eating-houses by those pretending to be gentlemen, who pull out their cigar or pipe, and sit and smoke as if their very life depended upon it. The very fact that it so brutalizes all sense of propriety and self-respect is enough to utterly condemn the filthy practice. Are there no rights of anti-smokers which these tobacco devotees are bound to respect? We enter our protest against this increasing evil and pestilential nuisance, worse than the frogs and lice of Egypt, and worthy of the most barbarous age, and shall join in the cry for lost “rights and liberties.”—Temperance Advocate.