Show HERES HERE'S SITUATION INI I CONNECTION WITH TOBACCO FIGHT F Four our Organizations Line Up F Forces or es to Smite Lady J Nicotine HOW IT SANDS STANDS 1 i States States which h have laws ARKANSAS IOWA KANSAS NORTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TENNES States States Stales which h had d laws but repealed them WASHINGTON WISCONSIN INDIANA OKLAHOMA NEBRASKA NEBRASKA NE NE- BRASKA MINNESOTA State whose law has haJJ been declared unconstitutional SOUTH DAKOTA By Frederick M. M K Kerby rby NE N.E. t-J t N. N E. E A. A Staff Correspondent NEW YORK YORK Nov 19 Is prohibition prohibition tion of ot tobacco o to follow tollow prohibition of ot alcohol Have the forces which successfully engineered the prohibition amendment to the constitution n start started d the drive that Is Js to end in the suppression suppression suppression sup sup- of tobacco in America 1 An unbiased investigation into th the influence nce and forces at work leads t to the conclusion that There is a a well defined campaign campal t under way backed in large large- part b by bythe y the forc forces s which backed prohibition of o othe the liquor traffic which has has- for its ultimate object the prohibition of ot th the sale and use of tobacco acco in every form torm Besides the many subsidiary groups group and organizations which like the aux auZ- auxIliary auxiliary branches of ot an army contribute to the success of the actual combatant groups at the front there are are fo four fou r well defined forces at work work- in th the campaign against My Lady Nicotine FOUR FIGHTING TOBACCO They are 1 The league with wit headquarters in Chicago of ot which which Lucy Page Gaston is the president and which plans to secure members in the United d States 2 The temperance and and morale moral board of the Methodist Episcopal church headed by Dr Clarence True Tru Wilson Vilson with headquarters in Washington Wash Wash- Washington ington D D. D C. C 3 3 Th Womans Woman's Christian Temperance Temper Temper- ance Union 4 4 Th The committee of of fifty headed heade by Dr Alexander Lambert of ot New NewYork NewYork York and nd including some of the mos most pr prominent physicians and scientists i ithe In Inthe inthe the United States which Is making a study of ot the effects of nicotine on th the human system There is no present Intention Intention- on th the part of ot the an forces to wor work for a constitutional amendment t to to prohibit tobacco The work which i is going on is is' very similar to the wor worK which was undertaken by tie the prohibition prohibition lIon l- l tion Ion forces ag against the use of liquor in the first stages of its Its' campaign 1 l' l consists of education agitation publicity publicity pub pub- lefty directed against tobacco an and particularly at the the present time against the cigarette The first legislative legislative legis- legis attempts will center in an ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort to secure cure an legislation In the states where the chances of ot success sue sue- cess are best and also albo to secure th the enforcement of oC an an legislation in those states which already have hav such laws but where where they are a dead dea I letter r BATTLE ON PACIFIC COAST The legislative attack att attack ck will start In Oregon 4 i iOn On September 17 17 there was Vas vas filed tiled with the secretary of ot state of ot Oregon by D D. E. E Frost J of ot Oregon City an initiative jn jn- jn Itla IVe petition covering the prohibition prohibition prohibition tion of the sale use or possession o of c cigarettes gar In Jn Oregon General Brown of ot Oregon has prepared the ballot title for this thi bill and if it receives a sufficient number of ot signatures it will wil require OOOO signatures It will b be voted on by the people of ot Oregon in Jn inthe i ithe the general election of November 1920 Predictions of of its overwhelming de defeat defeat defeat de- de feat are not worrying the forces They regard it a as 88 merely an I entering wedge Oregon has been selected because i ihas it has u no Interest jn n tobacco growing i and because it Is' Is regarded as al one o othe ot of the best fields for tor the star start of the movement The attempt to secure a drastiC tte law for for- Oregon follows follow the revival of enforcement of the anti anti- cigarette law In North Dakota For Fo years ears the law there has been a dead deac letter etter but ut last last- May officials began to put life Ufe into the law and dealers were advised that they hey w would be gIven a certain length of ot time in which to dispose dispose dispose dis- dis dis dis- pose of stocks of ot cigarettes on hand after which time the law would be strictly enforced M Many ny dealers de-alers ceased selling selling- cigarettes altogether r others put up the price 5 Cents a package to tore re recompense them for the risk they are taking Th The general practice ce Is is to evade the law by keeping the cigarettes cigarette out of f sight but selling Belling them just the same |