Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-03
BAN ON CIGARETTES
CHICAGO BUSINESS HOUSES FOR.
BID THEIR USE.
SENTIMENT AGAINST THEM
1t Is Declared the Habit Is Incompat-
IDLE With Efficient Service-Some
Large Chicago Firms Prohibit and
Others Discourage the Practice
Ban Works Some Hardship Here.
grows

Anti-cigarette sentiment grows
steadily stronger despite the harm
less" assurances of jealous manufac-
turers to the contrary and the paid-for
recommends of unscrupurous 5. physi-
clans, which the manufacturers are so
freely circulating. vigorous cru
SADIE against the cigarette is on in
many cities, and several legislatures
are considering the question of their
prohibition. Though considerable
quantities Of the article are sold and
consumed by old and young in Madi-
son, it is yet fact that the evil here
has not reached to such proportions as
in many other places. For this reason
no organized or general effort is being
made here to suppress the insidious
coffin nail, and as rule people smoke
unhindered.
There is one place in the city, how
ever, where a recent anti-smoke ordi-
nance works serious hardship. 1t is
in the law building at the university.
Not as in the palmy days of yore can
disciples of Kent and Blackstone
smoke cigarettes and play seven-up in
the class room, for intolerant author
ity has interposed ban, and only the
plug and fine-cut forms of the diver
sion are permitted and only one spit
toon allowed for the salivary surplus
of each individual aspirant for legal
honors, though it is said few enjoy
two.
Chicago business houses are putting
a ban on cigarette smoking. They say
the habit is incompatible with efficient
service. Absolute prohibition has
been declared by three large firms and
one railroad, and others are expected
to follow this initiative. Aside from
effects on the mind it is claimed that
nicotine is doing such physical injury
to clerks and office boys as to cause
loss to employers. One firm has start
ed fund to be subscribed to by TWEEN
ty business houses, who are asked to
join in a crusade against the use OF
the cigarette by the employees of all
the large department stores and the
factories in Chicago.
BY the prohibitions already enforced
LOO employees are affected. Of these
80 per cent. are boys under IS years
old. Of these boys it is estimated that
| 600 who are now abstaining from CT
garette smoking formerly were smok-
| ers. The objections made by the en-
ployers, which led up to the prohibi-
ton of cigarette smoking by employees
were as follows:
| That the smell of nicotine from the
| breath of employees is annoying to
customers and to other employees who
are not users.
That nicotine demoralizes the en-
| ploye and affects his honesty.
That cigarettes make the employe
nervous.
That they stunt his mental growth
befog his memory, and prevent an
alert intellect.
That physically they affect an en-
ploye so that he cannot give the best
service to the employer.
The concerns which already have
forbidden cigarette smoking among
their employees are: Montgomery Ward
< Co, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad. Heath & Milligan Manufac-
turing company and Hubbard Spencer,
Bartlett & Co.
Madison high school boys use cigar
cites to the annoyance of teachers
and others who come within the range
of the nauseating odor which environs
them, and there is occasionally
Smart Alex in the ward SCHOOLS whose
intellect runs in the direction of cof-
fin nails rather than books. Many L
child comes home and complains of
the offensive odors in which he is OBJ
lised to do his school work In the
opinion of parents teachers would be
justified in sending home the smokers
On tbs ground that they are a specific
nuisance