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 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 
 
 DECEMBER, 1910 
 
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 ...... . .OFFJCTRS 
 
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 Commissioner of Public Works, City of Berkeley 
 
 First Vice-President, Frank Soule, 
 
 Professor Emeritus y University of Calif omia 
 
 Second Vice-President, G. N. Brink, 
 
 Principal of Berkeley High School 
 
 Third Vice-President, C. E. Rugh, 
 
 Associate Professor of Education, University of Calif. 
 
 Fourth Vice-President, Elmer E. Nichols 
 Superintendent, Lyman Allen, M, D. 
 
 ADVISORY BOARD 
 
 C. L. Biedenbach, 
 
 Principal of McKinley Introductory High School 
 
 G. Walter Monroe, 
 
 Principal of Washington Introductory High School 
 
 E. H. Mosher, 
 
 Principal of Emerson Grammar School 
 
 J. J. Jessup, 
 
 Engineer, City of Berkeley 
 
 L. E. Blockman J. O. Davis 
 
 A. A. Handle C. H. Denman, M.D. 
 
 E. E. Keyes D. L. Jungck 
 
 R. F. Michaelis A. N. Meals 
 
 J. M. Shepherd C. W. Peck 
 
 Le Roy Tufts, D. D. S. 
 
ADDRESS dF THE*^ ^^ ^ ^ 
 ANTI-TOBACCO LEAGUE 
 
 INTRODUCTORY 
 
 The Anti-Tobacco League, which is 
 being organized in Berkeley, is the 
 first and only attempt ever made in 
 this or any other land, so far as we 
 have yet learned, to organize a general 
 movement against the Tobacco Habit. 
 Many have fully realized the injurious 
 effects of the habit ; many have wished 
 and hoped and prayed that some unit- 
 ed effort might be made to stay its 
 course. Some have tried to lead the 
 way. But the task appeared so dif- 
 ficult, so impossible, that no one saw 
 a reasonable hope of success. 
 
 William Lloyd Garrison, son of the 
 noted abolition orator, in a letter to 
 the New York Tribune of July 31, 
 1907, wrote: "Whoever enters upon 
 this reform faces an enormous com- 
 
merclal irfoftopoly ot wealth and poli- 
 .•,tir:il**p5pyretjlas v^el\as':an almost uni- 
 versal' practice/ "It IS* 'fostered by so- 
 cial custom and encouraged by church 
 organizations; educators, by example 
 and precept, countenance smoking; 
 physicians are largely users of the 
 weed, tolerant of its use by their pa- 
 tients ; the press is saturated with its 
 fumes. Literary men lean upon tobac- 
 co for inspiration, while every book 
 of fiction, by male or female author, 
 makes the pipe or cigar of the hero 
 as inseparable from him as his cravat. 
 When poets idealize tobacco in charm- 
 ing verse and club life is enveloped 
 in a cloud of smoke it is easier to ac- 
 cept than to shun the habit. Like wine, 
 it is associated with art and music 
 and the sensuous refinements that 
 make enticing the entrance into a 
 slavery from which emancipation is 
 rare. And public sentiment (mean- 
 ing the consensus of approval which 
 counts upon its side a silent and timid 
 dissent) presents a solid wall, against 
 which it seems folly or recklessness to 
 precipitate one's self." Nevertheless, 
 
mankind has been saved by voices in 
 the wilderness." .... "If unchained 
 victims cannot be liberated, at least 
 the unwary can be warned against 
 cords which, seemingly silken, arc 
 wrought of steel. Men may be given 
 courage to stand up and be counted 
 against a custom sapping the physical 
 powers and paralyzing moral resis- 
 tance ; and the selfishness everywhere 
 displayed regarding the comfort of 
 non-smokers can be exposed." 
 
 Despite these apparently insurmoun- 
 table obstacles, a small company of 
 Berkeley men have undertaken the 
 task. In preparation for the work, 
 they have spent many weeks in diH- 
 gent research, in earnest forecasting, 
 and in consultation among a large 
 number of persons. Many of those 
 spoken to have expressed themselves 
 as being in full sympathy with the 
 movement, and ready to be counted 
 among its supporters. Thus, by sym- 
 pathy, by encouragement, by counsel, 
 and by advice, have our plans been 
 shaped. 
 
 We now have our course in most 
 
particulars mapped out; we have a 
 large number of our best citizens al- 
 ready with us ; and we feel hopeful of 
 a reasonable measure of success. Dr. 
 Lyman Beecher Sperry, the noted lec- 
 turer, more than any other man, by 
 his advice, suggestion, and approval, 
 has given us hope and inspiration. 
 
 THE TOBACCO HABIT 
 
 COMPARED WITH OTHER INJURIOUS 
 
 PRACTICES 
 
 1. Fifty years ago about three mil- 
 lion human beings were in bondage 
 in this free land of ours. A large pro- 
 portion of those who held slaves were 
 excellent men ; they treated their slaves 
 kindly; they did not look upon the 
 practice as a wrong against the bond- 
 man. The practice of buying and sell- 
 ing men, women, and children, was 
 then respectable. George Washing- 
 ton, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee 
 were slave-holders. 
 
 2. Fifty years ago, the Drink Hab- 
 it was widespread in our country. It 
 was one of the greatest evils afflicting 
 humanity. It was generally regarded 
 
as respectable, except when indulged 
 in to excess; and even excesses were 
 but mildly condemned. There was 
 then but little effort to discounten- 
 ance, or limit the use of alcoholic bev- 
 erages. They have been banished from 
 a large portion of our territory, and 
 in most well-governed communities 
 from which they have not been ban- 
 ished their sale has been carefully 
 regulated. Like slavery the Drink 
 Habit bids fair to become a thing of 
 the past. 
 
 3. But we still have with us, in full 
 measure, its Twin Evil, the Tobacco 
 Habit. This is today as serious an 
 evil as the Drink Habit, or at least, 
 is a good, strong second to it. It 
 is more widespread; and, directly or 
 indirectly, injures a much larger num- 
 ber of people. This habit is still con- 
 sidered quite respectable for men, and 
 tobacco is looked upon by many good 
 people as a comparatively harmless 
 luxury. 
 
 4. As yet, there is no general and 
 emphatic protest against the use of 
 tobacco, and no general and system- 
 
atic movement to prohibit or to dis- 
 credit it. It is true that there is a 
 movement against the use of cigar- 
 ettes by boys. This praiseworthy and 
 largely successful effort was begun 
 and is being carried on mainly by the 
 Woman's Christian Temperance Un- 
 ion; and for this, and also for the 
 systematic work which they have done 
 in preparing and furnishing literature 
 along the same lines for use in the 
 public schools throughout our land, 
 they deserve all honor. But this 
 action has placed the onus almost en- 
 tirely upon cigarettes ; while men and 
 boys are still given moral and legal 
 license to chew tobacco and to smoke 
 cigars and pipes almost anywhere and 
 in almost any company. 
 
 5. Most of our States have laws re- 
 stricting the sale of cigarettes. Six 
 
 States prohibit them entirely, nine pro- 
 hibit their sale to boys under twenty- 
 one years of age, fifteen prohibit it to 
 those under eighteen, fourteen to those 
 under sixteen. But cigars and pipes 
 are likewise injurious, though perhaps 
 in a less degree. 
 
CHARACTERISTICS OF TOBACCO 
 
 1 . Tobacco is one of the most dead- 
 ly of poisons. It is a compound of poi- 
 sons. Tobacco and tobacco smoke 
 contain not only nicotine, but many 
 other poisons. Among these are col- 
 Hdine, prussic acid, and carbon mon- 
 oxide (the poison contained in illu- 
 minating gas), all deadly poisons. To- 
 bacco is too dangerous a drug to be 
 used as a medicine. It is destructive 
 to all forms of animal and vegetable 
 life. In any considerable dose it jkills 
 quickly. When used even moderately 
 it is always more or less injurious. 
 However, as with alcohol, arsenic, opi- 
 um, and most other poisons, the sys- 
 tem gradually becomes tolerant of its 
 presence. 
 
 2. The injurious effects of tobacco 
 on the human system are manifold. 
 Its effects vary with the kind, the 
 form in which it is used, the extent 
 of its use, and the age and the char- 
 acter of the individual using it. But, 
 to some extent, its poison reaches and 
 deranges every organ and every func- 
 
tion: heart, lungs, kidneys, nerves, 
 hearing, digestion, circulation, gener- 
 ation, and perception, are all subject 
 to its attacks. Occasionally it causes 
 cancer of the mouth, lips or throat. 
 
 3. It is upon the young that tobac- 
 co has its most disastrous effects; just 
 as frost may injure seriously or even 
 kill the tender foliage of tree or plant 
 and yet hurt but slightly the mature 
 growth. If a boy begins to use to- 
 bacco at an early age and continues 
 to use it, it will stunt his growth in 
 body, mind, and character. It will 
 from the start disturb the functions of 
 all his organs ; it will steadily reduce 
 his vitality; and in the end it will 
 prevent his reaching the full measure 
 of normal, healthy, vigorous manhood 
 which he might have reached had he 
 not indulged in the habit. 
 
 4. Some agreeable effects of to- 
 bacco. For those accustomed to its 
 use, its effect at first is slightly excit- 
 ing, or exhilarating; later, and in larg- 
 er degree, it is soothing, composing, 
 satisfying; but finally it is depressing. 
 
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It is a solace; it is genial; it is com- 
 panionable; it tends to make the man 
 forget his troubles, his failings, his 
 cares ; but in so doing it also tends 
 to make him neglect the things which 
 he is depended upon to do. 
 
 5. It is not easy for most persons 
 to acquire the Tobacco Habit. At first 
 tobacco is very distasteful and quite 
 disturbing to the whole system. The 
 boy learns to smoke because men 
 smoke: he wants to be a man. He 
 acquires the habit, and then the habit 
 acquires him. The man learns to 
 smoke because his associates smoke : 
 he wants to be sociable, wants to make 
 friends, wants to do as other men do. 
 
 6. But once the Tobacco Habit is 
 acquired, the appetite grows and con- 
 tinues to grow. Two cigars yester- 
 day, three today. In many cases the 
 appetite is satisfied only by constant 
 use. Some men keep their pipes in 
 their mouths nearly all the time, even 
 when at work. Most men who smoke 
 cigars also chew them to some extent. 
 Some men chew cigars nearly all the 
 
time, but seldom smoke. For all such 
 confirmed users it is difficult to quit 
 tobacco. 
 
 7. Much has been said and written 
 concerning the injury done by the 
 habitual use of opium, morphine, and 
 cocaine. These drugs, so used, are 
 indeed very injurious; and yet, rela- 
 tively, they are of small importance ; 
 for there are but thousands who use 
 them as compared with the millions 
 who use tobacco. 
 
 8. Many habitual users of tobacco, 
 as well as many habitual users of 
 wine, brandy, and whiskey, have lived 
 to the alloted age of man, and appear- 
 ed to be not seriously injured by their 
 practices. Such cases, of course, have 
 encouraged many to follow their ex- 
 amples. And yet such examples do 
 not prove that tobacco and liquors are 
 beneficial or even harmless, or that 
 such men have retained their health, 
 energies, and usefulness in the same 
 degree that they could have retained 
 them had they not used tobacco or 
 liquor. General conclusions as to any 
 
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practice are determined by its average 
 effects in a large number of cases. 
 
 EVIDENCE AS TO THE 
 INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF TOBACCO 
 
 1. Philip S. Wales, Surgeon Gen- 
 eral, United States Army, speaking of 
 the United States Naval Academy, at 
 Annapolis: "Beyond all other things 
 the future health and usefulness of the 
 lads educated at this school require 
 the absolute interdiction of tobacco." 
 "In this opinion I have been sus- 
 tained, not only by all my colleagues, 
 but by all other sanitarians in mil- 
 itary and civil life whose views 
 I have been able to learn." "The bod- 
 ily welfare and happiness of these 
 young men and of their future off- 
 spring may be permanently influenced 
 by this vicious indulgence." 
 
 2. Professor Oliver, head of the 
 Department of Drawing at Annapolis: 
 "I can indicate the boy who uses to- 
 bacco by his absolute inability to 
 draw a clean straight line." 
 
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3. Medical Director, United States 
 Navy: "The depressing effect of to- 
 bacco upon growth, by diminishing the 
 forces concerned in tissue change, its 
 effect upon the heart and pulsation, 
 the disturbance of muscular control, 
 the dyspeptic troubles, impairment of 
 vision, headaches, and the disturbance 
 of sexual development, are conceded 
 by most observers." 
 
 4. John W. Wilson, Superintendent 
 West Point Military Academy: "The 
 regulations of the Military Academy 
 prohibit the use of tobacco, and 
 prompt and severe punishment follows 
 if cadets are detected smoking." 
 
 5. Dr. Die Lewis: "At Harvard 
 College, during fifty years, although 
 five out of every six students were ad- 
 dicted to the use of tobacco, not one 
 of them ever graduated at the head of 
 his class." 
 
 6. Dr. J. W. Seaver, College Phy- 
 sician of Yale, shows the effect of 
 the use of tobacco on the growth of 
 young men, from examinations and 
 
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measurements of the Class of '91 for 
 their four years' course. There were 
 seventy-seven men who had never used 
 tobacco and seventy who used it regu- 
 larly; some used it irregularly. The 
 average gain of the men in four 
 principal respects during the four 
 years is shown by the following table : 
 
 Weight 
 lbs. 
 
 Height 
 in. 
 
 Chest Ivungr 
 
 Girth Capacity 
 
 in. in. 
 
 Non-users ....11.78 
 Habitual users 10.66 
 
 .894 
 
 .721 
 
 1.74 21.6 
 1.27 12.17 
 
 7. Professor Edward Hitchcock of 
 Amherst College made similar tests on 
 members of the Amherst Class of '91, 
 with similar results. 
 
 8. Dr. Lyman Beecher Sperry: 
 "Its general public use blunts the 
 public moral sense, degrading not 
 only the individual habitue, but also 
 society at large. 
 
 9. Professor H. H. Seerly, Presi- 
 dent Iowa State Normal School, after 
 ten years of observation, making a 
 personal study of several hundred 
 boys addicted to tobacco using, and 
 
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giving only observed facts: "Boys 
 that begin the habit at an early age 
 are stunted physically and never ar- 
 rive at normal bodily development." 
 "It causes indigestion, defective eye- 
 sight, dull hearing, nervous affections 
 and diseases of the heart." "Pupils un- 
 der its influence are not truthful, prac- 
 tice deception, and cannot be depend- 
 ed upon." "Tobacco, used in any 
 form, destroys the scholar's ability to 
 apply himself to study." "In a case 
 where reform was secured and the 
 habit overcome, the pupil again re- 
 turned to normal progress, and had 
 a successful career as a student." 
 "The worst characteristic of the habit 
 is a loss of respect and regard for the 
 customs and wishes of others." "Teach- 
 ers, parents, and philanthropists have 
 not yet been sufficiently aroused re- 
 garding the magnitude of this evil." 
 "Of the two habits — the alcoholic and 
 the tobacco^ — the latter is doing the 
 more permanent evil to the youth of 
 this fair State." 
 
 10. Dr. Gustave Le Bon, President 
 Society of Medicine, Paris: ''Toxic 
 
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properties of tobacco smoke which 
 have heretofore been attributed to ni- 
 cotine alone, are due equally to prussic 
 acid and to different aromatic princi- 
 ples, notably a particular alkaloid — 
 collidine. This is a liquid of agreeable 
 and penetrating odor, giving the prin- 
 cipal odor of tobacco, and is as poison- 
 ous as nicotine." "It is to the pres- 
 ence of prussic acid and to different 
 aromatic principles that certain phe- 
 nomena are due, such as vertigo, head- 
 ache, nausea, which certain kinds of 
 tobacco produce which are deficient 
 in nicotine . . . and of which others 
 rich in nicotine do not produce simi- 
 larly." 
 
 11. Mary Foote Henderson, in her 
 book, Aristocracy of Health: "Eulen- 
 berg and Vohl, noted chemists, sepa- 
 rated the fumes of tobacco into va- 
 rious poisons of different characteris- 
 tics, among which were pyridine, pico- 
 line, lutadine, paroline, coridine, rubi- 
 dine and viridine." (The tobacco pipe 
 becomes loaded with a residue from 
 these various poisons.) 
 
12. Luther Burbank: "No boy liv- 
 ing would commence the use of cigar- 
 ettes if he knew what a useless, soul- 
 less, worthless thing they would make 
 of him." "Men who smoke but one 
 cigar a day, cannot be trusted with 
 some of my most delicate work." 
 
 13. Judge Ben Lindsay: "I have 
 been in the Juvenile Court nearly ten 
 years, and in that time I have had 
 to deal with thousands of boys who 
 have disgraced themselves and their 
 parents and who have brought sorrow 
 and misery into their lives; and I do 
 not know of any one habit that is 
 more responsible for the troubles of 
 these boys than the vile cigarette hab- 
 it." 
 
 14. E. H. Harriman: "A railroad 
 might as well go to a county lunatic 
 asylum for its employees as to con- 
 tinue to employ cigarette smokers." 
 
 15. Dr. Trail: *'Many an infant has 
 been killed outright in its cradle by 
 the tobacco smoke with which a 
 thoughtless father filled an unventil- 
 ated room." 
 
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16. Medical Testimony: "Of near- 
 ly 12,000 volunteers for the British 
 Army, only 1200 were able to pass the 
 required tests, and the chief cause of 
 physical disability was officially and 
 medically declared to be smoking." 
 "Of 67 candidates for the medical de- 
 partment of the U. S. Army, during 
 the Spanish War, 43 were rejected be- 
 cause of tobacco heart, officially and 
 medically so declared." 
 
 17. Dr. D. H. Kress, of Washing- 
 ton, D. C, in a recent address, deliv- 
 ered at a meeting of the American 
 Society for the Study of Narcotics, 
 said: "Tobacco users may attain old 
 age for the same reason that men and 
 women under the most unsanitary con- 
 ditions sometimes live long, but this 
 does not furnish an argument in its 
 favor." "I have seldom found tobacco- 
 using and usefulness in extreme old 
 age associated." "All the centenarians 
 whose lives have remained useful to 
 the close, so far as I have been able 
 to observe, have been non-smokers." 
 
 18. Science, a journal which is an 
 
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authority among scientific men,, makes 
 this statement : "When Europeans first 
 visited New Zealand they found in the 
 native Maoris the most finely devel- 
 oped and powerful men of any of the 
 tribes of the islands of the Pacific. 
 Since the introduction of Tobacco, for 
 which the Maoris developed a great 
 liking, they have, from this cause 
 alone, it is said, become decimated 
 in numbers and reduced in stature and 
 in physical well-being, so as to be an 
 altogether inferior type of men." 
 
 OUR INDICTMENTS AGAINST 
 TOBACCO 
 
 1. The most serious charge against 
 tobacco is its disastrous effects upon 
 the boy (see page 8, p. 3) and this one 
 charge is enough to condemn the hab- 
 it, even though there were no others. 
 
 2. The injurious effects of tobacco 
 upon the mature man are not nearly 
 so serious or so apparent as upon the 
 boy. Many of those who smoke in 
 moderation seem to be but little or not 
 at all the worse for the habit. 
 
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Yet the injury is there. The logic 
 of medical testimony, of the hosts 
 of men themselves who have been 
 or are being injured by the habit, 
 and of the men and women who have 
 observed its injurious effects upon the 
 user, is unanswerable. It is almost 
 universally admitted that tobacco in- 
 jures, to some extent, all who use it. 
 To many it brings ills of body and of 
 mind. To many it brings troubles, 
 disappointments, failures, defeats. 
 
 3. Tobacco smoke is offensive to 
 most non-users, and especially so to 
 women. The odor of it is intense, 
 penetrating, and persistent. It clings 
 to walls, draperies, carpets, upholster- 
 ed furnitures, clothing, for hours and 
 even days after the smoker has gone. 
 The smoker carries more or less of the 
 odor with him, even when he is not 
 smoking or carrying his tobacco pipe 
 in his pocket. Some men get to be 
 fairly saturated with it — reek of it — 
 and yet are unconscious of the fact. 
 
 4. Again, the smoker not only in- 
 jures his own health, but he injures 
 
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the health of all those about him; he 
 poisons the air they breathe. It is as 
 
 important for every human being to 
 have pure air to breathe as it is to 
 have pure water to drink; and the 
 right to it is fundamental. 
 
 And yet the average smoker feels 
 at liberty or at least he takes the 
 liberty, to smoke nearly everywhere 
 and in almost any presence where 
 smoking is not prohibited, apparently 
 regardless of the rights of the non- 
 smoker. He smokes in offices, stores, 
 banks, shops, restaurants and other 
 business places ; in public halls, lodge 
 rooms, council rooms, social, political 
 and business gatherings ; and even in 
 Y. M. C. A. and church business meet- 
 ings. He appears well satisfied with 
 himself and quite oblivious to the dis- 
 comfort, annoyance, offense and in- 
 jury he causes others about him. He 
 does not at all realize that he becomes 
 a nuisance in public places. 
 
 5. One of the most serious results 
 of the Tobacco Habit is the fact that 
 it tends to cause the habitual user to 
 
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lose gradually his respect and his con- 
 sideration for the rights of others. 
 
 Consideration, respect and care for the 
 rights of others, is the essence, the 
 foundation principle, of all ethical 
 teaching; and it is also an essential at- 
 tribute of the true gentleman. 
 
 6. The father who smokes encour- 
 ages by his example his own boy and 
 other men's boys to smoke. 
 
 7. The men, women, and children 
 who work in tobacco factories are se- 
 riously injured by inhaling tobacco 
 odors and tobacco dust. 
 
 8. Smokers and the boys who imi- 
 tate them start many fires through 
 careless, heedless handling of matches, 
 cigars, and pipes. In such ways mil- 
 lions of dollars worth of property is 
 destroyed every year. In such ways 
 many homes, many factories, many 
 business houses, many city blocks, 
 many great forests and many fields 
 and barns and stacks of hay and grain 
 have been destroyed by smokers. 
 
 9. The cost of tobacco is a serious 
 
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financial burden to many of those who 
 
 use it. Many men spend more money 
 for tobacco than they do for bread, 
 and many even more than they do for 
 bread and butter. 
 
 The Internal Revenue Report for 
 the year ending June 30, 1910, shows 
 a rising tide in the nation's tobacco 
 bill: 
 
 7,600,000,000 cigars — 160,000,000 
 more than in 1909. 
 
 6,830,000,000 cigarettes — an increase 
 of one billion. 
 
 402,000,000 pounds of plug, fine cut, 
 cube cut, granulated or sliced smok- 
 ing or chewing tobacco, or snuff — 
 4,000,000 more than the year before. 
 
 It is estimated that the annual fisrt 
 cost of tobacco for the nation is prac- 
 tically the same as the cost of bread 
 for the consumer — each about $800,- 
 000,000. Probably the retail cost of 
 tobacco to the nation is double the re- 
 tail cost of bread. 
 
 10. The man who smokes or al- 
 lows smoking in his office, store, or 
 shop, thereby lessens the efficiency 
 and reliability of his employees, low- 
 
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ers the tone of his place, and, to some 
 degree, varying with the character of 
 his business, lessens his patronage and 
 his success. 
 
 11. A large and increasing propor- 
 tion of the men who manage railroads, 
 carlines, manufacturing and mercan- 
 tile establishments, and many other 
 lines of business, prefer to employ 
 men who do not smoke, and in some 
 cases they positively refuse to employ 
 smokers. The doors of opportunity 
 are gradually being closed against the 
 smoker. 
 
 12. The use of tobacco by athletes 
 in training is almost universally for- 
 bidden. This shows the uniform tes- 
 timony to be that using tobacco im- 
 pairs a man's strength, nerve, and 
 skill. 
 
 13. By lowering moral tone and by 
 lessening the power to resist tempta- 
 tion the Tobacco Habit makes easier 
 the downward road which leads to 
 other vices. 
 
 14. It is true, and it is lamentable, 
 that a majority of the men who lead 
 
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in business and social affairs in this 
 country are smokers. It is also true, 
 and it is deplorable, that a consider-, 
 able number of our most conscientious 
 and influential citizens, are smok- 
 ers, including grammar school and 
 high school teachers, (Berkeley is 
 fortunate in having but few public 
 school teachers who smoke). Univer- 
 sity professors and instructors, even 
 members and pastors of churches, 
 Sunday school teachers and Y. M. C. 
 A. secretaries. And such conspicuous 
 examples add greatly to the task of 
 those who are trying to keep the boys 
 and the young men from acquiring the 
 habit. The bad example set by a good 
 man avails more in promoting vice 
 than does that set by a vicious man. 
 How can you well answer the boy 
 who says: "My father smokes, my 
 Sunday School teacher smokes, Mc- 
 Kinley smoked, why shouldn't I?" 
 
 15. It is said that the Smoke Habit 
 is increasing among women. This may 
 be so in some localities, but certainly 
 not to any considerable extent, nor 
 at all among our best American wom- 
 
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en. But, why not? If smoking is rep- 
 utable for men, why not for women? 
 Yet how would it seem if smoking 
 were as common among women as it 
 is among men? Think what it would 
 mean to the women themselves, to 
 their children, and to the nation! 
 
 Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, presi- 
 dent of the National Woman's Chris- 
 tian Temperance Union, in an address 
 delivered at the annual convention of 
 the Union, held in Baltimore in No- 
 vember, 1910, made this statement: 
 "We are sometimes told that there is 
 much cigarette smoking among wom- 
 en. In the course of my travels in 
 England and America I have never 
 seen a woman with a cigarette in her 
 mouth, except in certain localities in 
 New Mexico, where the surroundings 
 were not at all pleasant to contem- 
 plate. There is reason to believe that 
 some women in England do smoke 
 cigarettes and we are told that there 
 are some in America of like habit. I 
 have seen now and then a woman in 
 a hovel smoking a pipe." 
 
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16. However, the fact remains that 
 the great majority of the more earn- 
 est and refined women in our coun- 
 try are opposed to the Tobacco Habit, 
 
 in whatever form. Among the non- 
 users of tobacco they are the greatest 
 sufferers from it. Undoubtedly their 
 health often suffers from it; and still 
 more often their comfort and their sen- 
 sibilities. They are compelled to sub- 
 mit to its offense in their homes and 
 in many other places where they need 
 or desire to be, and they usually en- 
 dure the offense with but a silent pro- 
 test. 
 
 17. Since human slavery has been 
 abolished and the saloon put under 
 ban there is no other bondage so in- 
 jurious, so galling, and which enslaves 
 such a large proportion of the human 
 family as the bondage of the Tobacco 
 Habit. 
 
 18. The use of tobacco by such a 
 large proportion of the men who are 
 the bone and sinew of our country, if 
 continued, means deterioration and, in 
 the end, a decadent race. 
 
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THE OBJECTS OF THE 
 ANTI-TOBACCO LEAGUE ARE: 
 
 1. To save the boys from the in- 
 jurious effects of tobacco by secur- 
 ing the enactment and enforcement 
 of laws and ordinances prohibiting 
 the sale of tobacco, in any form, to 
 boys under twenty years of ago, and 
 prohibiting its use by such boys. It 
 is not our purpose to attempt to pro- 
 hibit the sale or use of tobacco, ex- 
 cept to minors. 
 
 2. To discountenance smoking in 
 educational institutions, in municipal 
 buildings, in meetings of fraternal or- 
 ganizations, on street cars, in banks 
 and other open business places, in of- 
 fices and shops. 
 
 TO THESE ENDS WE PROPOSE: 
 
 1. To educate the people, mainly 
 by literature, as to the injurious ef- 
 fects of tobacco, especially by boys. 
 
 2. To make plain to the smoker 
 how discourteous and offensive he 
 sometimes becomes to the non-smoker. 
 
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3. To organize all those who sym- 
 pathize with the movement into an 
 army to carry out these plans. 
 
 4. To encourage and, so far as 
 we can, assist tobacco users to give 
 up the habit. 
 
 IN CONCLUSION 
 
 1. At the outset we looked first to 
 non-smokers to take up the cause, 
 but already we have several earnest 
 workers in our ranks who are smok- 
 ers. We want as a member every man 
 who is in sympathy with this move- 
 ment and willing to do what he can 
 to help it along, be he smoker or non- 
 smoker. Do you want to help save 
 the boys? Do you want to help to 
 induce smokers to be more consider- 
 ate of the rights of others? Then we 
 want your name, your encouragement, 
 your suggestions, your influence. 
 There are no dues, no pledges, no 
 obligations to give either your time 
 or your money, unless you desire to do 
 so. 
 
 2. The smoker is not so much to 
 
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be blamed for being a smoker. The 
 compelling forces of association and 
 of an almost universal practice have 
 led him to acquire the habit, and the 
 still more compelling force of the ap- 
 petite itself have caused him to con- 
 tinue it. But all smokers, with perhaps 
 some exceptions, should give up the 
 habit. All young men surely ought 
 to; but it is especially the young mar- 
 ried man who should quit it; for it is 
 of great moment not only to him but 
 also to his wife and to his children 
 that he do so. It is not so impor- 
 tant for the man in middle or ad- 
 vanced life, who uses tobacco in mod- 
 eration. He may not be much in- 
 jured by the habit, and usually there 
 are fewer dependent upon him or to 
 be affected by his smoking. 
 
 3. This movement, in order to bring 
 the results we expect it to bring, will 
 require a good deal of money: many 
 hundreds of dollars for Berkeley ; many 
 thousands in other fields. There is no 
 cause more worthy, no work more 
 needed, no place where money can 
 
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be expended to bring larger results 
 for human betterment. 
 
 4. It will be well for the cause to 
 have a large number of contributors. 
 Some can well afford to give $25, or 
 a larger sum, some $1, some 25 cents, 
 all acceptable. We expect contribu- 
 tions from women as well as from 
 men, and there may be boys and girls 
 who want to give. Many cannot well 
 afford to give any money, but all who 
 wish the cause success can give their 
 support in other ways. 
 
 5. And now, a word to the women. 
 We realize that you will be in full 
 sympathy with this movement; that 
 your voice, your influence, your sup- 
 port can be depended upon; that you 
 will be ready, whenever a call comes, 
 to join in pushing forward the work. 
 We also realize that it is very impor- 
 tant for the success of this movement 
 that the young women and the school 
 girls be instructed regarding the in- 
 jurious effects of tobacco, to the end 
 that the time may soon come when 
 young women will decline to receive 
 
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attentions from young men who smoke 
 or chew tobacco. 
 
 After our League has been 
 fully organized, is in good working 
 order, has made perceptible progress 
 towards the accomplishment of our 
 purposes, we shall expect to see a 
 strong woman's organization, also a 
 young woman's organization, formed 
 to co-operate with us. 
 
 6. In preparing this Address we 
 have aimed to be guarded in our ex- 
 pressions ; to make them under rather 
 than over the line of a full presenta- 
 tion. Should there be those who doubt 
 the truthfulness or the authenticity 
 of any of our statements we should be 
 pleased to have them call at our rooms 
 and investigate. We are provided with 
 authorities sufficient to satisfy the 
 mind of any earnest inquirer. 
 
 7. We are not now sending copies 
 of this address to any considerable 
 number of persons outside of our own 
 city, and we do not intend to do so 
 until we can show some progress here. 
 Demonstrations are more valuable 
 
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than exhortations. But there are those 
 in other places whom we wish to ap- 
 prise early of our undertaking; in or- 
 der that they may be considering it 
 and getting ready to take up the work 
 when the opportune time comes. 
 
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The Office Rooms of the 
 
 ANTI-TOBACCO LEAGUE 
 
 , are at 
 
 511 First National Bank Building 
 
 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 
 
 Address all communications to 
 
 Anti-Tobacco League 
 
 Draw all checks in favor of 
 
 Anti-Tobacco League 
 
 OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBERS 
 
 Sunset, Berkeley 984 
 
 Home, F 1746 
 
 RESIDENCE PHONES OF SUPERINTENDENT 
 
 Sunset, Berkeley 1300 
 
 Home, F 1171 
 
 Office Hours, 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 
 Usually not open Sundays 
 
THE OBJECTS OF THE 
 
 ANTI-TOBACCO LEAGUl 
 
 ARE MAINLY : 
 
 1. To Educate the People regar 
 ing the Injury and the Lo 
 which the Tobacco Habit brin: 
 upon the Human Race. 
 
 2. To Save the Boys and t! 
 Young Men of our Land frc 
 the Injurious Effects of t ' 
 Tobacco Habit. 
 
 3. To Induce Smokers to She 
 Due Consideration for t 
 Rights of Non-Smokers, at all 
 Times and in all Places. 
 
 4. To Protect Non-Smokers fn ri 
 the Offense and the Injury so 
 often caused by Inconsiderate 
 Smokers. 
 
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