Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1913 — CIGARETTE SMOKING BY MINORS TO STOP [ARTICLE]

CIGARETTE SMOKING BY MINORS TO STOP

At Least State Senate Would Have It So and House is Also Quite Sure to Approve.

The senate Thursday afternoon passed the Hauck anti-cigarette bill, making it unlawful for any person under the age of*2l years to smoke cigarettes. Only two senators, Gers and Traylor, voted against the bill, and there were no speeches in opposition to it. The Anal vote was 33 to 2.

The only discussion of the bill was by Senator Hauck, who said that everyone knows that it is harmful for a minor to use cigarettes and that their use in young persons stunts their growth as well as their minds.

The senate also passed the bill giving to every sheriff in Indiana the right to collect from the counties the “in and out fees’ and increasing the fee for boarding prisoners from 40 cents a day to 50 cents a day. Another fee bill, applying to every county clerk in Indiana, also was passed. The senate had a busy day, passing twenty-one bills in all. In the anti-cigarette bill there is an additional safeguard thrown about the proposed law to provide a penalty for any dealer who sells cigarettes to any one under 21 years of age. The present law on the cigarette subject affects only persons 16 years old or unctef. The present law was passed in 1909, it having replaced the blanket anti-cigarette statute, which did not prohibit the shipment into this state from another state. The Hauck bill provides that it shall be unlawful for any perso i under the “full ’age of 21 years, by himself or through any other person or means * * * to buy, receive or accept for his own use or for the use of any other person whatsoever * * * any cigarette, cigarette paper- * * * wrapper or any paper or wrapper containing morphine, nicotine, oil of hemp or any deleterious or poisonous ingredient * * intended, suited or made or prepared for the purpose of being filled with tobacco for smoking, or any substitute for such cigarette paper * * * wrapper or other such paper.” It. is made unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years to misrepresent his or her age for the purpose of obtaining cigarettes or cigarette papers, and dealers are prohibited from selling cigarettes or papers. The bill provides a density for the violation of any of its provisions of a fine of not more than SIOO or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months, or both fine and sentence.