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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0358 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| November 20, 1920—Page 6 THE JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON, MARYLAND. HOME FRIENDLY SOCIETY INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE 1025 LINDEN AVENUE BALTIMORE 6-1-20 ¦ s ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ fl ft ¦ p ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦IIIIIIIBIIIBDII ANTI-TOBACCO CRUSADE NEXT, ARE INCLINED TO LAUGH AT IT Following Prohibition Movement Is Growing—Its Strength Has Been Greatly Increased By Influence Of Women Who Vote—Advocates State A More Refined Civilization Will Rid Itself Of Manliness. AT THE SWITCH We have everything prescribed by physicians and our compounding is conducted with skill and care by graduates of pharmacy. The special care which we give to PRESCRIPTIONS has caused our prescription department and every other department of our drug business to grow. This growth is continuous because people believe In pure drugs, superior service r \ right prices. Let Vm Fill Your Next Pre*' ptlon STROBEL PHARMACY, Inc. " The Prescription Store " York Road 2-i-iy GOVANS, BALTIMORE, MD The Universal Shopping Center HOCHSCHILD,KOHN &0>. Numbered among our shoppers-by-mail are patrons from all sections of our own great State, as well as from each State of the Union. Orders also reach us from Cuba, the Canal Zone, Canada, and even from faraway China and Japan. Inquiries are welcomed, too. If your home stores cannot supply all your needs, write us for descriptions and prices. We would be pleased to number you among our Shoppers-By-Mail. Baltimore's Best Store HOCHSCHILD.KOHN &.CCX Howard and Lexington Sta. (Special Correspondence to The Jef-fersonian). Few people realize that the prohibition of liquor has given a quiet, but powerful, ¦ impetus to the agitation agoinst the use of tobacco. Most men are inclined to laugh when they are told that, ultimately, smoking may be forbidden, although many recent and far-reaching laws restricting the sale of the cigarette have demonstrated the possibility. In addition, it is a question which more than ever preoccupies the industrial and financial expert and many physicians, who are generally agreed to recognize that the relation of smoking to labor efficiency and health requires further investigation, if the urgent work of economic rehab-iliation is not to be gravely compromised. An investigation on new lines has been undertaken in England, and the results, when published, promise to be interesting. That they will also elucidate, as far as possible and in permanent fashion, the great question— whether smoking hampers human work and progress—is also to be -expected. Today, when the atmosphere of the world is electric with revolt and the thunder of propaganda is abroad, it is interesting to note that this study of tobacco is one of sheer utility, being prompted by the desire to find out the truth and to attain the object, the most equitable solution of the problems. O'ne of the great obstacles to such an investigation is the flood of propaganda books and articles. It is im- Established 1865 WM. A. CONWAY Jobber of TINNERS' SUPPLIES Metal Roofings, Painted-Corrugated, V-Crimped and Galvanized Double Lock Roll Roofing For Dwellings, Garages and Barns Stove and Furnace Goods of all sorts. All Sizes Railroad Milk Cans. WM. A. CONWAY 626-28 FORREST ST. Phones, Mt. Vernon 2751 or 1999 Write Today for Prices 4-13-20 The Eureka Life Insurance Company BALTIMORE, MD. Incorporated 1882 The Eureka Life is now a legal Reserve Old Line Stock Life Insurance Company with 37 years commendable history back of it. Issues Every Form of Modern Life nsurance. ll-l-ly portant, therefore, to begin by examining the works of those who have their own theories to force on the public. These writers generally present their ideas in the form of idealistic living, in which tea, coffee, cocoa and tobacco are forbidden. The recipe is easy enough. Prom time to time somebody writes a book to prove that meat is a poison, or that vegetarians are remarkable for longevity, and since it is easy to find in medical works examples of meateaters who had autointoxication, and in manuals on food of vegetarians who lived to be centenarians, it is not difficult to make out something of a case. On the same TO-DAY modern transportation is necessary to every business. The day has long gone by when any old time will do for making deliveries. Every business concern and farmer in America is working hard to increase their efficiency in the commercial world. IS YOUR TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT a holdback to your progress? If so, let us tell you how we can bring this department up to the 100 % mark with "BROCKWAY THE RIGHT WAY." Brockway Motor Truck Co. of Baltimore, Inc. 1921-27 NORTH CHARLES STREET MT. VERNON 1866 « tfi lines one could demonstrate that the excessive consumers of sugar are drunkards or that smokers are drug maniacs; the reader is expected not to notice that the writer generalizes concerning a whole class from a few unfavorable specimens. Nevertheless, the anti-tobacco propaganda is a powerful instrument of change. Its strength has been greatly increased of late by the influence of women, who also have the vote. The agitatidn against smoking comes at an opportune moment. As a writer in Good Health says: "Unquestionably, propaganda against tobacco has reached large dimensions and made much headway. Many men, perhaps most men, still smoke, but an advance has been made in this great reform. Mothers' clubs, and parent associations are forces for anti-tobacco propaganda." The main thesis of the protagonists in this movement is that a "more refined stage of civilization, i. e., smoking." It is also argued that manners will change and that under a different system of manners smoking will be relegated to the vulgar classes of society. In saying this the writer is unconsciously touching the reason which chiefly accounts for the widespread use of tobacco. Smoking is essentially a fashion, and nine-tenths of the philosophy of tobacco are, and necessarily must be, founded on pure utility. In other words, smokers naturally prefer tobacco as a means of social enjoyment, but, if there were no tobacco, so deeply grounded in fashion or custom isismoking that men would continue to smoke some substitute, asi was acually done during the war in countries where the leaf was scarce— in Germany, for example. So far, no proposal has been made to prohibit the habit of smoking substitutes, like rose leaves, or coltsfoot, and numerous other artificial tobaccos. Despite the virtual certainty that these would take the place of tobacco, the object of the anti-tobacco gospellers is to prohibit the sale of the genuine article. This is a serious deficiency in their programme, for many, if not mosft, of these substitutes are more harmful than tobacco. Researches, which have just been published in Germany, show that the smoke of leaves of plants ordinarily esteemed beneficial is particularly toxic, a fact which has led to another inquiry into what is the deleterious ingredient of tobacco smoke. The results^ of this investigation were published recently in The Chemical News of London. Two questions, which had been unsettled were: What is the nicotine content of a cigarette? And, secondly, how much is destroyed during combustion? In his way the amount absorbed by the system was determined. The average nicotine content of the cigarette was 20 milligrams (about one-third of a grain). About forty cigarettes were taken in not more than half the nicotine was determined by chemical analysis. These were weighed and smoked in an automatic smoker. The ends were collected and weighed, and thus the weight actually smoked was known. About two-thirds of a cigarette is normally smoked: for example, .in the first series of experiments the total weight was 29.7 grams, the ends weighing 9 grams. In the second series the figures, were 26.5 and 9 grams, respectfully. The amount of nicotine in the inhalation was thus estimated. Knowing the amount destroyed could be calculated. The weight of the burned cigarettes being known, the nicotine in the inhalation is figured on this weight and given in percentages. In cigarettes weighing 29.7 grams the percentage of nicotine in the inhalation was 0.92. In the lighter cigarettes it was more—0.97. It was found that not more tha nhalf the nicoine was de-destroyed in the combustion. The average cigarette contains 19 milligrams (about one-third of a grain), in the portion actually smoked, about 14 milligrams; of this about 7 milligrams enters the mouth. In the smoke of thirty cigarettes only a trace of nicotine was found. In the tobacco itself of forty cigarettes the percentage of nicotine varied between 1 and 2. These investigations! are especially interesting, as the cigarette has always been assailed in legislation and in articles which condemn them as forms of smokings. Many people object to them on the score of cleanliness, smell, and the freedom with which they are smoked in drawing rooms, writing rooms and cafes. A difference of taste in such matters can easily lead to a difference in public opinion. One of the greatest dangers to which tobacco is exposed is the practice of making cigarettes out of "mixtures" of tobacco and other leaves. One result of the war has been to increase the number of these brands on the rnarket. If such a practice continues, the cigarette may find itself out of public favor. Propagandists who do not know the cause are j quick to complain of the "odor" of Ithis tobacco. Thivial as it may appear, the main force of the new propaganda is this ! appeal to taste. Even experts do not .understand the danger here. To make matters worse for the smoker, it has (been necessary to produce cheap j brands at the expense of flavor and I aroma. Criticism of smoking has, 'therefore, taken a new turn, which is the appeal to taste or imagination and i the fastidiousness which is so marked a trail of th eAmerican character. The propagandist now says less of the effects of nicotine, and wisely. For the public, and even the expert, the proportion of nicotine in a cigarette or cigar is a matter chiefly of guesswork. Moreover, the experience of substitutes shows that the fundamental defect of a cigarette, cigar or pipe is the burning quality of its contents. Now it is not necessary to be a chemist, doctor or physiologist to judge whether a cigarette, for instance, burns badly and makes a disagreeable fume. Anybody can do this much, and so the appeal to taste is likely to decide the question of smoking. And it is just this element of taste that influences women. That tobacco is in danger very few know as yet. It is unique among i things of this world. No other sub-| stance coothes, cheers, stimulates, as | it does; nothing else can take its place ,when the usual foods and drinks are, | for some reason, absent—and it does all this with less expense to health and happiness than any other solace discovered by man. After an e xhaustive analysis of the substitutes tried. Professor Rupp writes: "Tobacco affords true I enjoyment; it helps our organism over i many difficulties and over many cares ¦ and hardships leading to depressed states. It satisfies thirst and hunger, as we learned during the war." /OHN J. KELIiY President THOS. P. 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Catalog showing all models on request. Hanson Bodies, Hood, Fenders, and all Sheet Metal Work Aluminum. HANSON MOTOR COMPANY, Inc. Baltimore Office: 702-4 St. Paul Street York Road Garage Baltimore County Representative. 9-25-52w OESOE XOESOE -:-:-:-:->;->:-:-:-:-:- lOESOE aryland State Archives mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0358.jpg |