Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...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...
Does the CRIMSON stand officially and solidly for John Barleycorn and for the Noxious Weed...
Naturally, the Weed is not in exactly the same class as His Majesty, King Alcohol. Although a few of us enjoy life. as well and save considerable good money by omitting tobacco from our menu, the overwhelming majority offer incense to the God of Nicotine. But to attack the W. C. T. U. or any other organization for attempting to curtail the use of this rather unnecessary and not universally worshipped vegetable, seems to me somewhat like shutting the doors and windows of a smoke-filled room while some one else is trying to ventilate...
...attempt to outlaw tobacco in the regions where it is grown, but will confine its work to outlying parts of the country. Such as Oregon, where the society will not meet the opposition of the cultivators of the plant. But, unfortunately, an organization of this sort is like the weed it condemns; it grows. The anti-cigarette law of Kansas is a proof of this pernicious tendency...