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Show The Cigarette Prize Tag Craze. . The anti-cigarette bill which Is pending in the Utah Legislature is a good measure so far as it goes but if reports from Chicago are to be believed the fair sex is as much in need of protection in this line as the boys. According to an investigation extending extend-ing over the west which has been made by a Chicago Chi-cago newspaper, prize coupons in cigarettes are making ma-king cigarette fiends out of hundreds of women. They buy the cigarettes to get the coupons in order to obtain the prizes which are offered. These prizes range from a dainty bottle, of perfume to a grand piano. "The number of women cigarette smokers is increasing every day just because they want the prize coupons in the packages of cigarettes," said one of the proprietors of a big western cigar house. MI should say that in Chicago alone there are 25,000 men who are 'tobacco tag fiends as we call them, and the number of women is astonishing. With them it Is a craze and a fad. , They will buy nothing but Egyptian or Turkish cigarettes, and they always al-ways stipulate those which have the prize coupons in them. They will take no other." The craze is spreading over the west like wildfire and the number num-ber of women cigarette smokers has increased 100 per cent in the past six months." This is a plain, convincing statement of the existence of a ereat evil. When cigarette manufacturers deliberately set out to make a play for feminine victims by offering offer-ing that greatest of temptations prize coupons as bait, it is indeed time the Legislature were calling call-ing a halt. We all know what the euchre prize craze has resulted in. And knowing this we will all pray that the wise lawmakers deliver us from the cigarette cigar-ette tag craze! |