The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
'THE CIGARETTE HABH.
Is BECOMING MORE POPULAR
AMONG CHICAGO WOMEN.
Smoking Outfits for Ladies' in Depart
ment Stores an Indication Of
Practce-some Shops
Cater to Sex. u

Chicago.-The cigarette habit Is
growing in popularity among Chicago
women. This is vouched for by the to.
bacco dealers, the beauty doctors, the
bairdressers and by certain physi.
clans. The tobacco dealers, who ought
to know, say they did not realize, un.
til a few weeks ago, the extent to
which the cigarette craze had spread
among women. How they did learn 1t
was through the scare that was caused
by the announcement that after a GER
tain date cigarettes could not be sold
legally in Illinois.
Shortly after the newspapers print.
ed accounts of the cigarettes obituary
the tobacco dealers say they were
flooded with telephone calls from
women, all of whom wanted to know
how much truth there was in the re-
port that the new law was to become
effective. OF course none of the WON.
en- who called up would give their
names or addresses. but the fact that
they called convinced the dealers that
some of the cigarettes that had gone
out over their counters had not been
smoked by the men who took them
away. The dealers say that compara-
lively few women purchase their own
cigarettes.
The beauty doctors learn of the ci-
garette habit as it applies to women
by the presence of the odor on their
customers breaths when they visit
the beauty shops. Most af the women
smokers indulge the habit at night,
the beauty doctors say, so that all
traces of the weed may be removed
from their breath before the following
evening. Some of the beauty shops
have operators whose duty it is to re.
move cigarette stains from the fingers
Of their patrons.
That women smoke cigarettes to no
on the counters of the department
stores Of complete cigarette smoking
outfits. There are dainty little hand.
painted ASH trays and match boxes;
silver scissors and holders, the latter
designed to prevent the fingers of The
smokers from becoming stained. Also
there are cigarette boxes made espe-
cially to hold the small, tightly rolled
Mexican cigarettes, which are the
kind used largely by women. In one
Of the State street stores the young
woman behind the counter in which
these things were displayed said that
business seldom was dull in her de-
partment.
The physicians Of Chicago rapidly
are learning that women smoke cigar.
cites to to an extent that is none too
good for their health Some of those
women who have called in a physician
to treat them for certain nervous NAL.
adles have been indignant when the
same physician ordered them to give
mp ciga. cites. Always they deny that
thcH haze used tobacco in any form,
but y doctors say that excessive
cigarette smoking never fails to leave
It's peculiar effect on the heart action.
and tlat they seldom are deceived by
those who try TO make them believe
they never smoke.
Over on the west side are several
small cigarette shops which cater
especially to women. The brand OF
coffin nails" made by them differs
materially from those smoked by men.
They are longer and not so thick. On
one end is a mouthpiece of hardened
paper to prevent the tobacco from
coming in actual contact with the lips.
None of the downtown dealers could
estimate, in figures, the extent of the
habit. They all agreed that most OF
the feminine smokers were women Of
the fashionable world and that the
passion for cigarettes is on the In.
crease. Because the cigarettes con.
sumed by the women seldom are
bought directly by them there is no
way of telling, the dealers say, Just
how many women are taken with the