The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
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WHAT OF CIGARETTE.
Question About Non-Enforcement of
the Anti Law.

Cigarette smoking has been put I'M
der the ban by the officials of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
and by other industrial organiza lions.
An effort is being made to have the
state of Kansas wage a war on the
coffln nails The 1909 legislature passed
law prohibiting the sale or giving
away of cigarettes or cigarette papers
but the law has been only partially
obeyed and poorly enforced. 1t has not
been particularly hard for most cigar
cite smokers to- obtain the pills or the
maxim s. In spite of the absolute pro
nibition against it.
Many letters are being received by
the governor, secretary of the state
board of health and other state officials
urging that, since the state has the alb
solute prohibition law against the
clrgarette that the state employees ar
least should be compelled to obey the
law These officials are being asked 70
follow in the footsteps of the Santa Fe
and stop the use of cigarettes by state
employees as an example, to other en-
ployers and to public at large.
Governor Stubs has said that he
would not allow any man on the state
pay roll who uses Intoxicating LIQUOR
and 1t is said that several state en-
ployees have removed their cellarettes
from their dining rooms to the attic
since the order went into effect. There
is the prohibitory liquor law on which
the governor bases this decision so il
is, urged that the same prohibition
should be applied to cigarettes as Kan
sas has the same law relating to the
coffin nails as it has against liquor
Every few days the governor or Dr.
S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the board
OF health, receive letters from Kansaus
about the cigarettes. The following is
from a Kansas travelling man at Par
sons:
4 notice in today's papers where
Governor Stubs has issued a proclama-
ton as to tuberculosis Sunday. Why
not follow this up and wage war
against the deadly cigarette We poor
souls with weak lungs are compelled to
inhale this vile smoke in hotels. cars
and depots, causing us all kinds Of
trouble and suffering. The writer sees
every day inspectors and employees of
the great state of Kansas and of the
government, sucking and blowing this
vile smoke through their noses The
great reform officers of Kansas can
and should stamp out this evil Night
after night the writer is compelled to go
10 MS room in some hotel, long before
he would but the cigarette fiends drive
him out of the lobby and reading
rooms. Sometimes we are compelled
TO walk up and down a depot platform
for an hour or more at a time to keep
out of this cursed cigarette smoke. To
me the cigarette smoking is worse than
whisky for one man with a cigarette
can drive dozen men out of a room
While the man with few drinks of
whisky would not annoy anyone.
I think the bars should be put up
so tight that a cigarette smoker could
not get job with the state or hoId
one Kansas is waging war on whisky,
tuberculosis and the common drinkint:
cup and roller towel and half of the in
spectors and advocates of all these re-
forms are going over the country draw
ing pay from the state and smoking
cigarettes"