THE CIGARET NUISANCE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 27, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 26.

THE CIGARET NUISANCE.

THE Anti-Cigaret League has gained a well-earned victory in the decision of the United States Supreme Court declaring the validity of Chicago's cigaret law, which calls for a $100 license and prohibits their sale to minors. Ever since the passing of the ordinance a few years ago, it has been attacked as unconstitutional, but it has fought its way through the local courts, the State Supreme Court, and the national Supreme Court.

It is interesting to note that in the symposium of opinions advanced by prominent business men on the evils of cigaret smoking, is the following from Cashier C. N. Gillette, of the First National Bank: "One thing which has broken up the reign of the cigaret, as far as our boys are concerned, is the strenuous objection of the non-smokers to association with the young men who reek of the nicotin given off by the cigarets." When the odor of nicotin is admitted to be a detriment to the business interests of so stable an institution as a national bank, women can consider that emancipation from the evil against which she has so long and vainly struggled is at hand.—Union Signal.