Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-08-23 | Page 12 | Tirade Against Tobacco Habit

r TIRADE AGAINST TOBACCO HABIT Evangelist Mackey Persuades Many Cigarette Smokers ers to Quit Forty men raised their right hands in unison and glanced furtively at the thumb and forefinger when Tom Mackey in a tirade against tobacco declared yesterday ye erda y afternoon from his pulpit in the Commer Commercial cial street chapel that never a cigar cl reH tt smoker entered the chapel but that th evidences of his filthy habit was waa born on the right hand Mackey followed up his lead with aIL ait appalling enumeration of the dire results of the cigarette habit and when the meet meetIng meetIng meetIng Ing adjourned enough enouch sacks of cigarette tobacco to stock a tobacco stand WEre wen tossed ted into the Commercial street gut gUl gutter ter tar Unfortunately however the sudden 1 reform movement had bad its Ita drawbacks or Half a dozen dosen street gamma gamins farther down the strict str rt eagerly fished the tobacco sacks sack from the gutter water as they the swept past them Mackeys services yesterday on th the street and aad later in the little chapel won were unusually well attended and several 1 con conversions conversions versions resulted