The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-08
WILEY IS AFTER
TOBACCO USERS
SAYS SMOKING AND CHEWING IN
PUBLIC WILL BECOME
OBSOLETE
BIG MENACE TO HEALTH
INDIVIDUAL HAS NO RIGHT To M
FLICT HIS MALoDERoUs
BREATH UPON PUBLIC
AT LARGE
BIG MENACE TO HEALTH

WASHINGTON, d. c.. July 7.--Dr.
Harvey ". Wiley. pure food expert.
day predicted that Within fifteen
Years smoking and tobacco chewing
in public will have become obsolete.
DIR, Wiley is one of the incorpora-
tors OF the Anti-Tobacco Association.
which sought a charter in New York
a few days ago. Said he:
"A man has perfect right to drink,
torium, but he has not the shadow OF
n right to infiict unwholesome smoke
and his vile breath on the commu-
nifty at large.
There should be law, strictly
enforced by police. prohibiting smok-
ing and chewing in public places or
on the cars In which other persons
are obliged to be-
What is this new campaign, doc
tor"
.It,s-nn- campaign; IT'S -sttre-
enough crusade against the use of
tobacco In public" said he.
What Will it accomplish. provided
Ii lives and becomes healthy"
Simply the abolition of public
smoking and chewing; the publication
IF the air: relief OF persons who do
not use the weed and whose nostrils
Not Fair, Says Wiley.
NOW" said the doctor, evidently
mot relisfing questions, neither
nor my compatriots say man shall
not smoke his lungs to a FRAGILE and
spit his head OFF, providing he does
II at home, or in the woods or mead
o~s. But not where human beings
are liable to be. 1t Is not fair"
lis tobacco bad In the summer
time?"
Extremely So" was the reply.
I'm fact" DIR. Wiley. continued, II
am sure that no person could suffer
from sunstroke who had not been a
smoker or 'boozer.' The records show
such to be the case. Take man
whose system Is filled chock full OF
nicotine or alcohoi--which by the
way. Is the greatest curse In the world,
not barring jiggers--and the moment
the suns rays get him good and
right. he crumbles up, and sometimes
gives up the ghost. This Is proved
by the fact thu farmers and farmer
lads seldom suffer from heat
although In the harvest fields they
are subjected to the greatest amount
OF heat
Il sincerely believe that tho great
public. not only In America. but In the
entire worid-barring China, is strong
against drinking and the tobacco
habit continued openly and In some
millions of instances, brazenly.
Cigars Buy Hennery.
Let me give You an illustration of
the economy Of non-use of tobacco.
II went TO see my friend In the
country. He showed me with much
delight fine, new chicken coop he
had buff.
Now. look at this he said. and
tell me what it is made Of
| II looked. felt and thought heltev-
ing he was trying TO josh me.
why / said. 1T ia made Of wood
and shingles,'
Nothing OF the sort said he. TT
lis made of cigars
"Mystified. ] asked linn what he
meant
Tie replied; Saved Up my cigar
money for a month and this beautiful
hennery Is the result"
AS a final blast the new crusader
said:
People say chewing and smoking
preserve the teeth. That Is absurd.
| am not so very old and my teeth
are perfect. Do YOU think II comes
from the detested weed? No sir.
1t did not. However, !, have an ex-
/ planation for the popular opinion
that 1t .das3s . z ~, ss@s ..,s..,
lit must be that the tobacan IL 10
dirty that the germs causing deeayed
teeth cannot live, hence perfect
teeth"