The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-14
WOMEN SMOKERS
ARE NUMEROUS
Number Who Use Tobacco
Daily Increases-Say it
Is Not Sex Privilege

BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct 14.-Our
igrandmothers, or at least our great
grandmothers, extracted sweet solace
from clay pipe, but until the last
decade, this was accounted an evil
dence of the hardihood of the good
old days"
Now women of all caste and con-
dition, particularly the younger gen.
GRAFTON, are taking up smoking.
Women of high social caste regard
smoking as a necessity rather than a
luxury, and the habit has spread to
the smaller cities, A large number of
the suffrage leaders are in favor of
permitting women as much liberty
as men in indulging a fondness for
cigarettes.
The wife of candidate for presi-
dent of the United States felt called
upon only little time ago to deny
that she smoked.
This in itself is a significant evil
dence of the conditions that prevail.
The use of tobacco among women
is growing rapidly. The spread has
been as quiet and almost as unnoticed
as the dew fall, for the reason that
few women smoked from the house
tops.
The luxuriant sence of complacency
and the calming narcotism OF the mild
smoke in the form of the cigaret has
caused many of the gentler sex to in
dulge in it's pleasures. Despite the
numerous protests at first, many la
dies of the royal courts are confirmed
smokers. This is especially true in
the court of Russia.
Smoking is fad among some wom-
en-, and is INDUCED in quantities con-
sistent with reason and in proper
place and time there should be no
more ground for objection than play
ing cards, attending champagne sup
pers and late dances.
Why object, say its advocates, to
the occasional Whit from the care dis
really less harmful than the late sup
per?
Matter Of Privilege.
1t should be matter of pure per
sonal like or dislike and not that of
'sex privilege.
No genuine solution of the problem
has been offered. For every physi-
clan who declares smoking injurious
there are two others who will tell you
shat smoking is not injurious if done
in moderation.
And yet on the other hand there is
no doubt at all that tobacco is an ir-
.ritant to the lips, mouth, teeth, sal
ivatory glands, stomach and intestines
to some persons when used in minute
quantities., to all persons when used
excessively. 1t is said that eight
drops of nicotine (the active principle
of tobacco) will kill a dog.
Better Man PhysicaIlyA
According to records in the senior
classes Of Yale collage for period of
eight years those who used no tobacco
were considerably taller, heavier and
possessed greater Ing capacity than
those who were habituated to it's use.
This is disputed point, however, and
lacks confirmation by further tests.
Smokers cancer of the lips, smok-
er's sore throat, smokers indigestion,
smokers amblopia or blindness, smok-
ter's nervousness or tremor and the
Tobacco heart" are conditions only
too we'll known to the practicing ply
stefan.
1t may be said, without hesitation,
sthat the afore mentioned harms
wrought in the human economy are
due to individual idiosyncracy or to
,overinduigence, and the axiom, What
lis one mans meat is another mans
poison" may in sense be applied to
the use of tobacco. Moderation" is
ia relative term. What is moderation
Ito one may be excess to another.
In this relation, therefore, every
smoker must study and know himself
poison If used in quantities to make it
so; on the other hand, the most potent
tpoisons, such as potassium cyanide or
arsenic are useful if taken in nom
poisonous harmless doses. If tobacco
lis harmful, alcohol is to be looked up
ion as an extreme poison, in compari-
son; if tobacco has killed thousands,
salcoho1 has killed tens of thousands.