The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-06-25
FELLOWSHIP OF SMOKE



drink" But the time never come when any
thing means smoke but good tobacco
boys who the had cigarettes but the Germans
used stuff which can't describe polite Ian
guage has been rush Of our veterans to break
into the the Anti-Cigarette League
We prohibition will turn its tenace against tobacco
and of human rights With the prestige OF
conquor triumphant the peak has surmounted
supported by organization means livelihood to very many
men, lobbyists propagand speakers 1t means social life and
through anti-quor societies
Their tobacco 1t about the only vice which
hasn't been downtrodden by upift 1t is called weed
poison An An-Cgarette League has been incorporated IN
battle though champion against
would be the reaction all sensible progress along tenn
peance lines
called detrimental health, and morality
prefer with clouds of smoke the argument
tobacco harms the body 1t something in efficiency
but it not mans ambition to be perfect machine
living examples of the effects of long smoking
They hearty powerful handakes
impossible find disease in smoke when look these men,
Of health moderation in all conduct Tobacco
exception There field in which ntemperance deserves
food will poison taken 1t has been chem-
cay that the fumes of boiling ham and cabbage
deadle than the fumes OF cigarette paper
the standpoint of its that to-
The exchange of for commodity
costly The buyer gives of his another field
The exchange furnishes capital production tobacco
industry The profits of this exchanged
for other commodities The world round and wealth lost
spend freely tobacco but have waited themselves
into bankruptcy zephyrs of smoke.
1t argued that the industry unessenal that the capital
and labor used are wasted So are music all the fine arts half
clothes the smile face unessenial The
pety of unessena industries plays about great part in human
happiness the prosperity of essential industries
Here few striking figures showing the economic inn
poance of the tobacco industry:
A conservative estimate places ST.
The farm land employed which in
cidena needed neither for grain nor cotton worth $S7
100000 additional
The retail value of the tobacco products sold during 1918
$1,564,792,e61.
production averages year Cigars
totaled manufactured
is nearly five times the number of cigarettes manufactured in 1910
This increase has absorbed the increase and chewing
tobacco and snuff have failed to gain ground
The totals allow about cigars and cigarettes every
and child in the United Safes AS of the babies
and ABOUT ~ per cent OF the women yet acquired the habit
the and cent of the have about 1850 cigars and
cigarettes to enjoy each
Factories total Exports in the year ending June
1918, totaled $91,413,2e6.
Revenue accruing estimated by
Congress a $216520OOO
Consider morality Innocent upcurlng smoke destroy
ed soul We know addicted for who
beaten their wives We know
panons of caabash who have done anything
than tie dogs tail When their Saturday night
pay go staggering
after smoking jag will call it immoral
Smoking does earthly good Ay there's the
Tobacco is indeed trial in the humanity
We defend If it be found guilty put
trial Masterpieces of expression
have been born under the emotional by
Noble thoughts given in the melownss
smoke
King James, wrote the "Couneblaste to Tobacco" was
greatest ever had on the throne
He chopped off Raeghs head
When Oliver Cromwell crown of England he
tobacco not smoked" observed an English
writer today might be ruled by the House
The is told of clergyman himself with
snuff in the pulpit and announced his my
the dust"
From the moment Huxley started called him
self changed Moroseness and disappeared
Iennyson hated Italy he could
returned home Many Americans will follow
ample of Henry Dyke and
tobacco passes here
The of the NCs necessarily to stand the strain
of three days bufeting by the Atlantic
Sir James Barrie discovers his richest fantasies film
blue-white smoke
1t is with these aspects of life that smoke place 1t
should no more be prohibited the cold of
morals than music should
1t has definite social value 1t brings contenment peace
philosophy In its community there is fellowship souls II
is a stimulus which expands many souls of fellowship
1t has positive influence for than
spats fancy than
French heels soothes and reaxes the davis