The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-22
EoMFN SMOKERS ARE
INCREASING RAPIDLY
,,,,p 20 BILLION c1GAK-
PN Ere A YEAR. "A FEW TAKE
Ed 70 SMALL PIPES.

kew YORK, N. Y.-Millions o.
E S[g women are secret cigarette
hokeF' :. +be statement of one OF the
TINS manufacturers of women's
# A .os in the United States to
a's nc the writer today showed tna'
| Rp,ior Of the annual report OF the EN- IN,
Rrilo" W bureau which deals
sFnal fer rottes. According to this re-
III cls 5%arette smoking among wo-
t 'ig s4ps6iIv increasing IT They eXo are are
LIS; IS '' approximately 2O,ooO, ooI,oGJJJ
hokliis wear and they are hela
earetl;gSsl " for an increase OF 90 per
spons'p4tbe he sale and manufacture OF
NJ m .i IN the United States the last
#rIye months. ,,,. h;o to person
In nsS outside" said the manufactur-
the i4f o = person lives in town or
Il ,"oedium sized city he pro6,aoly
1en 80 NV see many women SMOKING
eeS NO. soLe in secret. He should have
hey SllloN ar books and see what a
LOOK ,d az mail order business we 40
ei N romen They do not want 10
~ .;@srettes right in their own nome
~ e'SSTb Thew do not want their next
awn', .;dbbor to know they smoke
Rol "t tSey send in their order Tor
nel ~, bnndred cigarettes-we do not
IN less than hundred-tney 1 HS.t -
! Il .s md them in plain Wrappers Inat $
S 'sa oostmaster nor anyone else can
Inc that is in the package. Women
70 ,,a Wi the country, in small towns
4 0 we towns, are smoking more ev-
Il Eormers' Wives Smoke, Too.
rta manufacturer pointed to map
j . ht United States hanging on the
n, +" Of his office. 1t was dotted over
III oins indicating the location OF
~ mail order customers ordering
J ,lret from this particular manu-
anrsr From Maine to Florida, from
II SI Horn to the state of Washington,
- INNS zigzag their way through
IN most remote rural districts
srorqh little towns and big. 1t was
- surprising geographical reveal,
n of the truth OF the figures based
Il tbe report of the bureau OF internal
avenue. 100000.
q New York women are not among
H. secret smokers, but had come out
H. the open about cigarettes.
i ~Thev come in to the store and buy
H. own" said a storekeeper. They
II led to send their husbands or their
srotbers or someone else's brother,
Hi now | should say that halt OF my
sCstomers are women.
Want Mans Sized Smoke.
Il INV women customers buy the same
brands OF cigarettes as men smoke,
said another storekeeper. They do
In like these dainty little feminine
Cigarettes. They want a mans size
&noke'
d Recently Joseph French Johnston,
aean OF the school OF commerce at
Il ew York university, created a SEN
alton by declaring that if women
#ouId smoke he wished they would
Ake to pipes as less harmful than CT
saretteS. Manufacturers state, how
&ker, that at present the woman trade
shows no disposition to follow the
#eans advice, A woman smoking a
shlall black pipe in a fashionable New
York restaurant the other night at
hacted a good deal of attention and
comment, | have seen a few women
smoking small cigars in New York,
ut at present the majority seem to
Prefer the taste of cigarettes, or per-
Raps lind cigarette more becoming.
/ The influence of Europe, where wo-
pen have long smoked. the greater
freedom OF women and changing
fashions are given as some of the rea-
ions for the increase of feminine
smokers. Perhaps a manufacturer
lpuched the root OF the whole matter
when he said:
!. Its another case of women chang
Pc their minds. They used to think
ss.moking was naughty. Now they
Pink it's smart"