Prohibit Tobacco for All Youth
In giving his reasons for prohibiting the use of tobacco in the West Point Military Academy and in the Annapolis Naval Academy, the surgeon-general says: "Before all other things, the future health and usefulness of the lads educated at the military school requires the absolute interdiction of tobacco." If it be so important to protect the health of "lads" whose best years are sacrificed to the most useless of all callings (excepting the liquor traffic and its adjuncts), surely the people ought to take at least equal precautions concerning the other lads in the country, upon whom must soon rest the burden of supporting these non-producing elements of society. Why should not the government also come to their rescue and protection through its prerogative of prohibition?