The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-09-14
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The Tobacco Nuisanca.

| Inc TOBACCO Nuisance.
We have suffered from it ourselves
and seen others suffer; ladies and gen
tlemen and people who had reached
that honored age when their comfort
and convenience should be restraint
on the company they are in. We
have suffered enough to be indignant,
though we must confess, in strict
self-examination, that what prompts
us to protest is no high ethical zeal,
like that which fired the bosom Of Mr..
Trask and his disciples. Disgust and
Indignation, and sense Of having had
lndlgnities practised upon us by the
votaries of the weed is the highest
moral range we rise to on this present
occasion.
We do not undertake any preach
ment on the morality, nor on the hy-
gienic aspect of the matter. What
we say is, that any man who uses to-
bacco is bound to take his pleasure in
way which does not annoy his neigh
bor. The best that he can say for his
practice is, that he enjoys it. There
is no food in it and it is not taken for
medicine. Possibly, it rests him, or
quiets his nerves, or puts him in
good humor. The sum of it is, that
he enjoys. it as personal luxury.
But he has no right to take his COM
fort out of other people, and the trou-
BILE with tobacco seems to be that it
makes people blind to the annoyance
they give others in using it. Your
genuine smoker comes to feel that he
has right to all the air, in doors and
out of doors. and feels himself abused
and .wronged when man or woman
puts In claim to breathe it without
the tobacco admixture. Ladies abroad
tell us that it is no gentleman who
would smoke in their presence without
asking permission; but, on the other
hand, both ladies and gentlemen agree
that no lady should venture to refuse
permission, when asked.
On both sides Of the water we are
rapidly coming to point lower than
this, where no permission is asked Of
man or woman. Your smoky friend
plants himself to the windward on all
occasions, and blows the dead smoke
he is done with in your eyes. 1t is
hard to find retreat. On the Balti-
more and Ohio Railway we have
known ladies to be smoked out of their
costly seats in the drawing-room cars.
This catastrophe is not impossible on
other lines. The smoking saloon
vents itself into the drawing-room.
On steamer decks and hotel piazzas
there is no escape, and too often one
retreats to his chamber in the hotel to
find, like the Light Brigade, at Bala-
klava, Cannon to right of them, can
non to left of them"
Now, we do not know why our
comfort is not as much of an object |
as any ones. People who do not
smoke have rights, and rights which
claim priority and are not to be tres
passed on in this way.
1t people will smoke, let them re-
member how great. a nuisance they
may easily make themselves, unless
they take pains to avoid it. Society
has right to require them to be clean
ly in their habit. An uncleanly smo-
ker, who does not take great pains
with his person, soon becomes intol-
cradle in society, more offensive than
a smoky chimney. Refined ladies
shudder at the approach of his redo
lent personality. Dead smoke in the
curtains and walls is too much for
fresh air, rose-buds, and good house
keeping combined
Beau Brummell broke off an en-
gagement because the lady used cab
bage. Yet, such are the caprices of
society that, had tobacco been in
vogue then as it is now, he might
have claimed his right to puff in the
lady's face or to have loaded her ia
pestries with his odors. He might |
even have offered her the choice of his
Opera Puffs," and wished to see the
light curls rising from her fairy lips.
Izaak Walton wondered that the
horse, "the honestest beast alive,
should have such strange power to
make men dishonest" Tobacco low
ers might, with more reason, wonder
Why manners go down on the ap-
proach of their favorite weed. The
fact is not to be denied. Tobacco is
no school of manners. About all that
can be required of the habitual smo-
ker is, that he shall not be a nuisance.
This we insist on.