THE CIGARETTE HABIT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, 24 April 1914, Page 5

THE CIGARETTE HABIT.

CIGARETTES AND THE CARDS. The Parents and Citizens' Association of Sydney are much concerned over the cigarette-smoking habit; and equally so regarding some of the picture advertising cards enclosed in each packet of the "destroyers." At a recent conference it was resolved — "That the Minister for Public Instruction bo urged to cause arrangements to be made whereby the systematic teaching, by competent persons, of the harmful results following upon the use by young persons of cigarettes and other forms of tobacco, may be regularly imparted in school hours, as part of the scheme of public instruction. That steps be taken to secure an amendment of the laws—Federal and State—relating to the manufacture, importation, and sale of tobacco, and of the Juvenile Smoking Act, which will make it an offence punishable by fine or imprisonment for any person whatsoever- to include, pack, give, issue, or otherwise distribute in or with any package, tin, or other container of cigarettes or tobacco, any card, picture, or any device whatsoever, other than the name, trade mark, and address of the manufacturer of such cigarettes or tobacco, for the purof any competition, or as a gift or toward or by way of advertisement where children or young persons may bo induced or attracted to the purchase of cigarettes or other forms of tobacco."