WOMEN SMOKERS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1922, Page 7

WOMEN SMOKERS

NEW YORK SURPRISED

PUBLIC INDULGENCE PROHIBITED.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COFIRIQHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YOHK, 27th March.

New York awoke this morning to find a new surprise awaiting it. The Board of Aldermen has passed, and the Mayor has signed, an ordinance, of which there is no record in the official Hansard, prohibiting women smoking in public places. Women themselves can in no manner be punished if they violate the ordinance, but the proprietor or manager where a woman smokes is subject lt> a fine oi five to twenty-five dollars, or ten days' imprisonment, or a finfi and imprisonment both. Newspapers made an attempt to communicate -with various aldermen, many of whom declared that they had never heard of an ordinance. Finally, one alderman admitted authorship. He said he and his wife had been shocked to see women smoking in restaurants. The police, upon going on duty, were all ordered strictly to enforce the ordinance. New York's Latin quarter, called Greenwich Village, is raising a violent protest. Artist leaders are communicating their views to the newspapers, which give the ■ordinance great display.