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SALE OF TOBACCO TO MINORS

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 19, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 40.

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SALE OF TOBACCO TO MINORS.

A LAW prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors was passed at the last session of the Illinois Legislature, and its good effects are already apparent, in Chicago at least. The Chicago Tribune having made an investigation of the subject says: "It has put an end effectually in this city to the sale of cigarettes to school-boys, a traffic from which the proprietors of the petty school stores derived considerable profit. One of the principals who had most reason to complain, says the effect of the law has been so beneficial that there is scarcely a boy in the school of which he has charge who now uses tobacco in any of its forms. The women principals have been specially zealous in securing observance of the law."—Fire and Hammer.