ANTI-TOBACCO CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18949, 21 February 1925, Page 9

ANTI-TOBACCO CAMPAIGN.

ACTIVITIES • N AMERICA. A. itud N.Z. WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. The anti-tobacco campaign recently in- ! augurated appears lo be gaining in si rcn;;t b. ]>r. Daniel Kress, a physician, and l>r. Harvey Wiley, formerly chief of the Bureau of Chemistry for (he Department of Agriculture, are heading the movement. | ii... Wiley, who is a food expert, and ' j committee of 100 men and women, including white people and negroes, are aiding !>r. Kress. The latter has called ; meeting of representatives of numerous organisations, and it is expected that 200 delegates from ail parts of the country will attend. The situation, according to this committee. is becoming daily more critical. 1 Americans are now consuming over 6,000,000 cigarettes a month, a largo percentage of which is being smoked by school children. The committee says a great "drive " must bo commenced to save the new generation from this " poisonous habit." A concerted movement should be made to pledge every Sunday-school student against tobacco in every form. Magazines and newspapers should refuse all tobacco advertisements, and smoking scenes should be omitted from all motion pictures. It is also suggested that a universal agitation should be inaugurated against smoking in restaurants, theatres, lifts, and other public places.