Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1920 — TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT SMOKING AMONG MINORS [ARTICLE]

TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT SMOKING AMONG MINORS

A commendible movement on the ■ part of a group of Remington citi- | zens has been started to enforce the ' anti-cigarette law in this town. It is deplorable fact that a great number, l if rot the majority of the minors here smoke, and heretofore little has been. said in opposition to it. The habit has reached such proportions that the citizens are forced to take drastic action in order to prevent it | from spreading among the younger, boys. A notice has been served on all’ business houses dealing in tobacco that the sale of it to minors must stop. The law holds it an offense not only to sell but to give cigarettes to minors, and a minor that smokes is considered a delinquent. It is to be hoped that it will not be necessary to make an example of anyone in order to show that the community is in earnest about prosecution of violators of this law. —Remington Press.