Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — The Dukc Vs. Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

The Dukc Vs. Tobacco.

It Is not quite fifty years since the Issue from the House Guards of General Order No. 577, which contained the following memorable counterblast: . “The Commaoder-lu-chiefi has been Informed that the practice of smoking, by the use of pipes, cigars or cheroots, has become prevalent among the officers of the army, which is not only in itself a species of intoxication, occasioned by the fumes of tobacco, but, undoubtedly, occasions drinking and tippling by those who acquire the habit; and he entreats the officers com-* mending regiments to prevent smoking in the mess rooms of their several reglmentsand in the adjoining apartments, and to discourage the practice among the officers of junior rank in their regiments.**—Notas and Queries.