Show TUB prohibition OF CIGAR A petition has been presented to the united states senate praying for the enactment of a law forbidding the sale of cigarettes aej tobacco to minors under sixteen y ears of age in the district ot columbia tiie petition was signed by all the physicians and schoolteachers school teachers ot the district alie paper presented by benator chae n ho said m reference to it that the aciga ciga habit mab ruining alie rising ration another said that bere capping tho strength t the nation referring to the matter the bays it may be ell enough to pass las of thid kiad but e ary 10 say that WB have very little labru in theiu ba tar aa their or leatric cne lectures rc we believe that several already aaita lue but u bave yet tu inac ni giyen u by tuu it upon the sale or caf ui hiie ahou tuat ane abiu ut as el iu ull ftuer houa of id iu anid the anil us in bis ed in aad tire t houi in acnia 01 hiie arar ane ugar ettes luat ear baj au ul over the preceding tar evv e do not be lieve inai n lue las ti at ani be en retied in iny anitad st itea agatui agai ui the bale ui to nl leduce theae uy i aeugle unit oc the luni it IB probable pio bable that the manu and aue ol 01 go on un in baite ot all hutti lion U that ill liae any knect upon abo use ol 01 robn cu uy ane bouno IB tue adm ot example the in nueme laened b ons person aho ha the and ahe moral courage to tree limi elt irom thy bonds ol 01 tue dobano is ol 01 greater value as a deterrent all ane clial could ever de framed li la llie 01 llly inai me boy a can be cepi irtie hum tay ot inu v ua loan aa mac live and anoe abit ln ino in ot o eloie irom diio ui kneir cidela ti la hui the kovei of any to e 1 bertteen bett teen a ue and a ir agrant nna to a line ot ameen iw bell lobasco to b vs under sixteen anu bell to buyo itule ahai adf A prohibitive lav oi timid mu tinlot and all not be entorf ca li hii be a dead letter irom the baart because it hua LO real forte bak or it because it makes diilio aou clial uro and tory it is true that the cigarette rao ement 13 doing iti part in mining the generation and so is sap ping the strength oi the nation also A great deal more than that might be said but TIC do not propose here to adnell upon the manifold evils arising from the use of tobacco tob aico volumes of testimony on that point might be po adt ddt cd the injurious effects of the tobacco buison upon the human system are known and recognized everywhere within the past y ear a number of cases hav e cone to public notice here boys and young men hav e been brought to their death erectly by the use of tobacco la the form of cigarettes kb one dis fact that the prevalence of the casarett ci hab t among the young is one of the most threatening avih of alie day ita magnitude can hardly be exaggerated ag but cihat shall bo done about it mchall 0 strike the ase at foot of the trpe by for the abolishment of alie tobacco habit among all men adults as well as minors or shall tte deal a few feeble blows at the top of the tree by enacting laws corbid biag the sale of tobacco to boy s under eix teca the reform if it comes at all vill not como by the enactment of prohibitive lans if we are to have a generation of men growing ap free from the infection of tobacco free from alie nicotine curse it rill not be because some one was forbidden to sell them the weed when they were under sixteen it will be when the am and the folly of the tobacco habit has been forced upon them not by law and precept only but by example it nill n ill be when tho teaching of the home and alie school on these points is sustained by the life and character of the teachers when tho fathers take the right stand on this matter we shall hav e little need to fear for the sons |