Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-17 | Page 4 | Women Who Smoke

I WOMEN WHO SMOKE. ,V'A Chicago alderman has started a crusade against' women who smoke and, as a result, he has been -made the target of severe' criticism criti-cism from a number of women who feel they should have all privileges privi-leges allowed men. Haskin, in Washington letter, treating on this subject, says: "Does smoking undermine women's health. Dr. .Samuel Band-ler, Band-ler, a specialist of nation-wide Came, says that: smoking in moderation modera-tion is really beneficial to high-strung women who work with their brains. The good that it does in relaxing their nerves more than-counterbalances than-counterbalances the infinitesimal harm it may do. Smoking in excess, ex-cess, he continues, like anvthing else in excess, is not good for anyone."' any-one."' At the meeting of the Illinois Federation of Women's clubs here recently one member introduced a resolution to oust any woman who smoked from the organization. When the resolution was read, however, how-ever, it only said that smoking among the members would be frowned upon: