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Show CIGARETTE HABIT GROWS APACE IN SALT LAKE (Deseret News.) , Chapter 133 of the, Revised Statutes: . "Any person under the age of 18 years who shall buy, accept or have in his possession any cigar, cigarette or to- , baeco in any form,' or any opium or . any other narcotic in any form, shall ' be guilty , of a misdemeanor." J With this the Utah legislature of 1903 4 put a damper on the tobacco, question. The child was made as -liable to pun- isliment as the dealer, the latter being supposedly restrained by other enact- ments. . ... 4 According to government statistics. 4 there has .been an increase of nearly 25 J per cent in the consumption of cigar- 4 ettes in this country during the past 4 few years. This, notwithstanding the enormous figures given out each year representing the output of the tobacco 4 ; factories. . ' ' It is an interesting but deplorable fact I that Salt Lake-dealers consider the ci- i garette habit on the increase, some go- 4 ing so far as to say" that in this city a close observer may see it growing al- 1 most daily. Ope tobacco man rnade the 4 assertion that in his store the cigar- 4 ette sales were about 20 per cent larger 4 than during the same month last year April and 3 per cent- higher last 4 month tha'i in March. He could not 4 account for it except by his observa- 0 Hon that men of years are taking to 1 cigarettes where formerly they used 4 pipes and cigars. . - 4 A dealer who did not care to have his name usedMiad this to say to' the Dear f eiet News-, on the subject? '.' "It is a 4 remarkable, fact that, men who have smoked cigars. for niaiiy. yckis axe form- J ing the cigarette habit, r hav- onlv n theory on the subject, ft is this: Years ago t'ne most popular brands of cigarettes cigar-ettes were Vanity Fair. Duke's Car,V-o. Sweet Caporal. Straight Cuts ami !V" Each of them had a day of popularitv. only to be supplanted by some cleverly advertised article, as were the Old Po-miuion Po-miuion ami Yellow Kid cigarettes. Hut all of these coniained tin- ordinarv cigarette tobacco and none was n:ne injurious or nmre a 1 1 r.-n-t i than another. an-other. But here lately tlv country j i taken up the so---( Ecypti.i'i land Turkish cigarettes, which contain I a larger per cent ot opium than the oh! I kind, arid which fast-n themselves en : the appetite. Thus the- apncti'e -:-ov s and before long the beginner tinds himself unable to use anything except the stronglv Moped' arti'.Ie. He- loses , till desire for cigars or a pipe and goes ! on until he develops into a cigarette I li-nd. I "Hut this is not the worst phase of the cigarette habit. The thing which I 1 deplore is the cultivation of the habit ; by our women old and young. Ir -a , becoming a popular fad. strange as if ' may se.-m. 1 know of certain soeietv functions given in Salt L- ke where the men and women hive gone to separate j apartments after dinner f,,r tli. ir cigar-j cigar-j ettes and cigars, and no great sec ret . was mad- of it. cither. I know al that, a certain so.j.-ty woman comes . into this store about one a week avdj I has a. dozen packages of a very high ! grade cigarette wrapped up. th-n calls; for them 011 her way from the peat- ! office. Think of it Ilk cigarettes M week for a wHI known woman: Ir Ia ' . shocking, and I hate to do it. ,iit what , : can I do'.' I know they are for her own : : use. but I cannot refuse to s. 11 them. 'And among young girls it is becoming: frightful: It would astonish you if 1 i told you of an institution an institution institu-tion of education in Salt Lake whop' ; girls form 'cigarette parties' andsniok. unti! th"y are. figuratively speaking, black in the face.' uill not name the place r mean, for not all of those connected: with it are guilty. i "I cannot, estimate how much money ! is expended for cigarettes in this city, but it is a. great deal. The trad" is so -ood. in fact, that I have transacted : business with twenty-one "tobacco j drummers since April 1." : Another dealer, William La Yeiil.-. was asked concerning the effect of the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors. In his opinion ir is obeyed to I the letter hy local dealers, but" there i , has been no noticeable decrease in ge:,, j j eral sais since the bill became a law. j 1 "It had very little effect," said he, "on ' the larger stores. Wo have always re- j .fused to sell to minors and the only j people it would effect were the little 1 ' places that have to scratch for a 1 . living." j j The injury that lurks in cigarettes is! I appreciated by al! dealers. Especially ' j ruinous are the kind so commonly used j today the "Turkish" brands. They j ! have been the primitive cause of n't 1 ! b ast on" murder in thi. c ity, and j enough of them will make a common ' opium-cocaine fiend out of t'ne strong- ' est man. "As a rule,'" remarked a weil known Ibmor dealer, "a. cigarette smoker is a ! drinking man. I liave a cigar store as well as a bar in this plac e, but when f 1 see h man come in smoking a cigarette ; I know it is just an even chance as to '. whether he will buy cigarettes or whis- -ky. I know- of several incurable 'hop' ' fiends in this town who were reduc ed ' to that: pitiable condition ' by cigarette smoking. Sooner or later they reach the point where the cigarette fails to ' satisfy. Then it is cocaine or opium. The solution? Why, the question has been discussed since the- deluge, but 4 nobody has ever" suggested but on? 41 possible and positive remedy except a national law to 'prevent the manufac- 4 ture of the 'coffin nails.' " 4 Several of the large business houses , in Salt Lak will not employ a cigar- j ette smoker and there is not one among j the largo-, iumcerns that wiil permit 4 smoking while on duty. The railroads are especially particular. General Man- j ' agc-r Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line 4 I has neve r permitted cigare tte smoking 4 I in the compa !; ; ! o'"-,ler applj. s tl;,o:il;'. ' V - "ri I N"s buiMh , ' , . I Ai the Trii. I j, pi;. , . . ' -: - ;. y ; barred, but. ( i ;. , " ' . ' ! j together a niorai ... -i ' .,,' ;' I has i.e.. n ,iilt,,si -,Ui , ' : '".; ! ' i,'arfttes. Xo ,r. , '. . ' ' '.y ! ''I'", the '.Olilding '' ' ''. I I J'P-'du.-t. ' ' "" ' : I Tlcre i :, el,.,,,..-- - ... I Id.-. rt,Wf!S clipped ., .. ... . 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