Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three hundred eighty-one men reported that they did not use tobacco as against 132 smokers...
...request of the International Y. M. C. A., who are collecting figures on smoking, each Freshman was asked as to the use of tobacco. 381 maintained that they did not use tobacco, while 132 admitted...
Only 132 out of a total of 513 Freshmen who were given physical examinations this fall were found to be users of tobacco in any form. The ages at which these smokers started using the noxious weed also revealed interesting data. One man puffed a cigarette for the first time when he was but nine, while at the other extreme one man attempted smoking at the age of twenty-five. However of the 105 who answered this query, 86 started the practice between the ages...
These figures are being compiled for statistics which are being collected throughout the colleges by the "Committee on the Scientific Study of the Tobacco Problem" of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association...
However, as we have seen in a communication in the CRIMSON of October 15, the reformers are already fighting one of the evils which must be uprooted to permit out quest of happiness. For the country is now learning that tobacco is a vile poison, a "rather unnecessary and not universally worshipped vegetable." The W. C. T. U. will therefore lose no time in plucking the "weed" from the garden of bliss which will be ours when the enterprise will have been successful...