New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

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Lane, first Governor of Vir-
ginia, and Sir Francis Drake, and popu-
larized abroad by Sir Walter Raleigh,
who "tooke pipe of tobacco little be-
fore he went to the scaffolde," is tobacco
to be tried, condemned and executed in
the place where it started?
Some think so-and merry war Is
precipitate. "The New York Sun" saws:
THE forces which won prohibition are
now about TO start a campaign against
tobacco. Three independent organiza-
tions are working individually to Danish
the cigarette and other forms of
tobacco. If they cannot do it otherwise
they will strive for legislation"
The AntiCigarette League of Amer
ica the Women's Christian Temperance
Union and the Committee of Fifty Of
New York, the last named including
physicians, chemists, economists and
scientists "who look upon tobacco with
disfavor," are indicated as the three or
CARNATIONS that are cunning for tobacco.
"It is not laughing matter" saws
THE Albany Argus" "There is no
length to which prohibition may not 20.
If it is successful in it's war on tea and
coffee drinking, after tobacco has been
banished, then our hours for going to
bed at night and rising in the morning
may be regulated by law. Why not?v
Nor is "The Argus" alone in its in
disposition to treat the campaign against
tobacco facetiously. The New York
Tribune believes that the structure ~
anti-tobacco propaganda should be an
tlclpated and combated now and not
when organization has silently won it's
way and the joke is over" To o,o+e
further:
The crusade against tobacco is not e1-
actly present reality The excitement bo.
not actually begun What is now under
way Is rather the preparation Of the mate
rial OF war, the marshalling of data, the
recruiting Of funds, the organization of
forces for the new movement.
but 1t is serious, mono the less. and the
time to meet it, if people wish to meet It.
Is now, when 1t is forming, not in the last
stages, when organization has silently won
its way and the joke is over. And we
think people do wish to meet and oppose
the movement. We think there is serious
menace IN the propaganda quite beyond the
threat to harmless exercise of
personal liberty and source Of cheer"
Socially Speaking
THE New York Evening Post" re-
fuses to be very much disturbed over
me situation. They-that is, the anti
tobacco forces-"will merely 20 on
aghtlng tobacco in the old way, and thus
everybody will be satisfied" Yet this
paper confesses to a feeling that tobacco
night better be abolished than alcohol
Socially, better case can be made ont
or alcohol than for tobacco. The social
PASS we say, but who ever heard of the
'0c'al cigar? Nothing, in fact, is more
'"soc'ai than cigar. One person smok-
Ns IN room can make it uninhabitable
VI everybody else Non-smokers have
zen known to be driven to smoke in sheer
Ell a-oe1ence' when the air became too foul
= D'eathe otherwise. But the glass that
40 waiter gently places at ones table
oes It make anybody else drunk?"
And further along one encounters the
question:
no ever saw sign reading, NO drink
"s We carry the distinction to the bitter
nd intoxicated men are assisted aboard
'a'ns' even at the rush hour. solicitously
= .'o 1or when they are not more than
VIC 70 care for themselves and tenderlv
''0'ed OF at their destination. smoker
'ooio De turned over to the police at once
8 brute"
ne cigarette; more than any other
ofm OF tobacco indulgence, has been a
afget Of assault for an Indefinite
'erlod' and yet "The ST. Louis Republic"
'"gs collegiate experience to bear upon
ne issue and finds that "cigarettes, like
'"acco IN any other form, or like tea.
''ee and even wholesome food can be
~.1 30 lntemperately as to be harmful;
~ aouse is no argument against use"
Furthermore:
"a inc course Of conversation an in
lung iayman asked the president Of
1'"'nent university what he thought
'1' 'he healthfulness or harrnfulncss Of
.~s''e smoking. The president replied
49, hs was no physiologst, but he Judged
'>ts can be nothinv v.r, h.~xe, -.