The Washington times., 1924-07-07
FORMER FOES
UNITE IN WAR
on FAC
Mo- Tobacco League and Cigar
Men Have Common Aim,
Though Views Differ
BY j. L. NEEDDOFT,
Internas lona1 News. serVlco.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. July ~
There exists probably no sympathN
at al between cigar manufacturers
and the No-Tobacco League Of Ohio.
yet they are perfectly unanimous
on one point, although, Of course.
not for the same reason cigarette
smoking il becoming entirely too
popular and widespread.
Naturally, the NosTobaccO League,
as the name implies, ID strictly ops
posed to the use Of the weed Ia any
form. And equally as naturally the
cigarmakers favor curtaiIment "a
cigarette using, because It ID cutting
heavily into their business and
where Il hurts most-the old cash
drawer. Nevertheless, the two ara
combating q common enemy, and
each, although far apart and distinct
from the other in purpose, registers
the same complaint.
DIR. ]. Knox Montgomery, prNahs
dent of the States No.TcbacOn
League and holding q similar posts
ton at Musking1m College, New
Concord, is especially antagonists
convention recently he took u
healthy whack at college men ana
women who indulge In the use ID
cigarettes.
Punctuating his remarks WITH
many blows Of the gavel as Il for
added emphasis, Doctor Montgomery,
during the course Of his heavy
verbal barrage against cigarette.
smoking by college students. de.
clared vigorously that it breaks
down the moral. mental and physis
cal stamina of the students, instead
Of building them up into fully dc.
yeloped. well.rounded persons "a
college breeding"
Muskingum College, he pointed
out, has an unwritten law that bars
sny user of tobacco from repre-.
senting the institution In any
activity athletic, Dramatic. loren.
sic or social. This rule is in effect
because, he added, ''men or women
who use tobacco rnisrepresent the
college and the ideals Of the coll
lege."
Doctor Montgomery charged thar
the church refused to aid the
leagues campaign to prohibit the
manufacture, advertising, sale and
use OF cigarettes because lnany
church officials smoke" ''Thanx
God, however," he said ferventIy.
only . few Of us ministers are
addictg Of the weed
! he expressed the belief that Tho
Ideathknen Of the cigarette could
ne sounded by publishing !, more
literature regarding the menace 81
the habit and eliminating billboard
advertising Of cigarettes.
To both of which cigar nanufac.
turers and jobbers heartily euI,-
scribe. for, according to a stafe-
woe canvass, the popularity of IN
slogle comforter is waning IN nrn~
portion to the rise of that Of thA
cigarette. = sA.s
Cigarmakers asert that racant
months have witnessed an enor-
nous decline in the sale Of fheir
products and a corresponding n.
crease In the sale OF ciearettnrJ
Only few years ago. thev Tn st,.
out, it was difficult to find ! n,e,..
cnant IN the small villages OF the
country who handled Cigarettes
else but
Many persons who have mada !
study of the steady growth of1
ctgarette-smoking attribute it larre-
~ to the world war, pointing an,
that relatives and friends in thiS
country sent to the soldiers s'oveI.
there thousands and thousands ~
cigarettes, which resulted in their
acquiring the habit before return.
ing to the United States,