Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-06-15 | Page 13 | Roundly Scores Women Who Smoke

ROUNDLY SCORES WOMEN WHO SMOKE Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, June 14. A vigorous protest against smoking by women was made hero recently by Field Marshal Lord Nethven In nn address to the Royal Army-Temperance Army-Temperance association. "How public opinion has changed," said Lord Nethven. "I remember the time when the very Idea of any woman smoklnc would causo untold disgust in society. We knew of It In foreign parts and If w.e traveled In France and Germany we saw, to our dismay dis-may and surprise, a lady smoking. That Is all changed. "Let me ask you honestly: Has a woman tho same senso of proportion as a man? Take drinking and take smoking. smok-ing. A woman does not know where to stop. She has a craving for smoking, and you will find many a lady now smoking smok-ing from morn to night and doing as much harm to her nerves as many a woman would do drinking. "I feel sure the time will coma when we shall get Just the same crusade against smoking to excess as that which we might now agaln3t drinking to excess. ex-cess. It Is because one girl soes another an-other smoke that she smokes because she seed her mother smoking."