WOMEN V. THE CIGARETTE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 759, 7 March 1910, Page 3

WOMEN V. THE CIGARETTE.

At a mass meeting of women held in Chicago a new anti-cigarette campaign, which bids fair to rival the temperance movement, was formerly inaugurated. So stirring were the denunciations of the immoral weed" that scores of women— brilliantly dressed ladies and . working girls alike jostled one another in their eagerness to reach the platform and sign, the cigarette pledge. The , new pledge reads as follows:—"I hereby pledge myself to be a total abstainer from the use of cigarettes, to do my best to get others to mnko a similar pledge that 1 will not give presents which will encourage tho use of the cigarette." One of the speakers scathingly denounced Mr. J. 1). Kockofollow for presenting the sum of ■£200,000 to fight the hookworm disease when, as sho scathingly put it, "the cigarette is a hookworm which is hooking our boys from Sunday school and from everything that is good." The Anti-Cigaretto League will endeavour by means pf a strenuous agitation to induce Stale Legislatures to imitate tho example of those municipalities in the West which have passed bylaws making cigarette smoking and the sale of cigarettes a misdemeanour. School teachers, all over the.counlry are assisting the propaganda. According to' tho latest statistics JOO,- j 000,000 macliino-mnde cigarettes arc consumed annually in tho United States, not to speak nf tho many millions that are rolled by hand. The "cigarette fiend," it is calculated, smokos one cigarette everv eight minutes of hk life. t\ * to