THE CIGARETTE QUESTION.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE CIGARETTE QUESTION.

Mr. Willis L. Moore, of the Weather Bureau, United States, who recently issued an order prohibiting tho smoking of cigarettes by lt^u employees during onice hours, in a letter to Mr. Henry H. Faxon, of Quincy, says:— -"Since our cigarette order was issued th* Chicago press says that many business concerns in Chicago have taken the same course as that taken by the Weather Bureau — that cigarette smoking is not permitted in tha office of the Board iof Education; that Montgomery, Ward «<ud .Co. have refused to employ boys addicted to the cigarette habit ; tJial Marshall, Field and Co. now provide bi-monthly lectures on tho evils of the practice for the benefit of their employees, believing that the physical energy and mental acuteness of their working force are injured by the use of the cigarette ;lhat the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, on some of its lines, has prohibited: the use of tho cigarette, iand that large down, town business establishments have admitted the lecturers of the Anti-Cigarette League. THE GERMAN DRINK TRAFFIC. Berlin, 2nd July, 1900.— 1n the effo'H to diminish drunkenness the Minister of the Interior has just laid before the dif, ferent provincial governments the draft of the new regulations which, he contemplates introducing shortly. These regulations order that all localities where alcoholic liquors are sold to tho public shall be closed between the hours of 10 o'clock at night and 8 o'clock in the morning. * Alcoholic drinks may be sold within the prohibited hours only to guests staying in the house and in station restaurants to persons travelling through, by train. The local police have authority to change these hours or to apply them in individual cases solely as they may think fit. No alcoholic drink may, according to the regulations, be sold to persons of weak intellect, to notorious drunkards, to dissoluite persons "shy of work," to persons who have been officially notified to the landlord as having been punished for offences against tbsi person or against property or for indecent conduct, to persons in the receipt of poor relief, to persons untler sixteen years of age>, and finally to persons who wish to take the drink home with them. The regulations also stipulate' that the windows and doors of .all public-houses shall be provided with clsar glass so that J a full sund uninterrupted view of the interior may be obtained from the street. , There is every prospect of the regulations being adopted, as the danger is recognised in very high, quartom of an increase of the drinking propensities of workmen as wages become better. Public-house 3 must already submit to most rigorous regulations as regards the supply of drink to soldiers in the active army.