JUVENILE SMOKING
Parents who value the health of their children are distressed at the enormous increase of cigarette smoking among boys of Id and 14 years of age. The war has brought a considerable increase in cigarette smoking amongst men in the army, and this has probably caused the gfowth of the habit among school boys. Some parents have severely punished tlieir boys for smoking, but this has had no effect in the majority of cases. Pohket money has been withheld from them, but that does not seem to make any difference. "In one school 1 know,” writes a correspondent to a London paper, "the headmaster’s form of punishment is to make the boy whom he catches smoking, smoke a very sliong cigar in his presence. He claims that after a boy has tackled one of lus special brand, he loses his love for tobacco."
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Otaki Mail, 19 February 1919, Page 4
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145JUVENILE SMOKING Otaki Mail, 19 February 1919, Page 4
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