Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1905 — CIGARETTE LAW CASE [ARTICLE]

CIGARETTE LAW CASE

Reply to a Suit That Attacks the Constitutionality of the Statute. FUSE FOOD CAMPAIGN BEGINS Bad Blood, the Sequel of a Marriage, Ends in Murder State News Items. Inrianapolls, Sept. 8. —Answer to the brief attacking the constitutionality of the anti-cigarette law has been tiled in the supreme court by Attorney General Miller. The original brief was filed by Homney L. Wilson in appeal of the case of John M. Lewis from the Madison circuit court. The answer submits that the only point involved in the appeal is that the law deprives the citizens of the state of certain inalienable rights, namely, the right of individual liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In this connection quotation Is made from the decision of the supreme court upholding the constitutionality of the law prohibiting persons from smoking or inhaling opium. Points Mode in the Answer. Then the brief goes on to say: “The legislature has determined that the habit or practice of smoking cigarettes is detrimental to the moral, mental and physical well-being of the citizens, at least to the youthful portion, of this state. It is a matter of general information that cigarette smoking is an insidious. injurious and dangerous practice, and if the legislature, in their sovereign capacity, deem it wise to prohibit the manufacture, the sale, or even the use of cigarettes, we believe that it is beyond the power of the courts to interfere With such legislation.” • Pure Food Law at Work. Indianapolis. Sept. B.—The state laboratory of hygiene, established by the last legislature, will be In operation the last of tills week, according to H. E. Barnard, state chemist. As the first step in the campaign to enforce the pure food laws now on the statute books, the first deputy health officer and food Inspector, Louis Bristol, of this city, has started out on his tour of the cities of the state with tbeview of detecting adulterations.