Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flamboyant Prohibitionist like Carrie Nation, who tossed cuspidors at bartenders. Her method was different, and so was her subject. Cigarets were to Lucy Page Gaston what alcohol was to Carrie Nation. Miss Gaston was founder and Superintendent of the Anti-Cigaret League of America. Once she wrote a letter to Queen Mary of England, reproving her, if press reports had been correct, for enjoying a cigaret after luncheon. But the climax of Miss Gastori's work came in Kansas, where she, more than anyone else, was responsible for the agitation which put a stringent anti-cigaret law on the statute...
Last week, Miss Gaston's major achievement began to be undone. The lower house of the Kansas legislature voted, 83 to 35, to repeal the anti-cigaret law. The State Senate is expected to follow suit; Governor Paulen say's he will sign the bill. Kansans had long been ashamed of this law. They could not enforce it; bootleggers simply sold cigarets for 25c instead of 15c; Missourians jested at their alleged smokeless neighbor, sent thousands of cigaret cartons across the border...
Meanwhile, George W. Hill, President of the American Tobacco Co., suggested that cigaret advertising ought to be prepared to appeal to the woman smoker. Manufacturers, fearing that such an act would precipitate a rabid anti-cigaret crusade, have not yet published advertising with pictures of a woman smoking. The nearest approach was the Chesterfield advertisement, wherein a charming damsel on a moonlight night asks her escort to: "Blow some...
Before 1923, Utah had an anti-cigaret law as stringent as the wavering law in Kansas...
...White Sox had paid some money to Detroit, but that was "as a reward for beating Boston. . . ." Donie Bush shook a fist in Risberg's face. Eddie Collins, with a catch in his voice, said the story was "all a damned lie. . . ." Risberg smiled. The players dropped cigaret butts on the carpet. Commissioner Landis withdrew to consider his decision...