Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — Says Cigarette Law Is Doing Good. [ARTICLE]

Says Cigarette Law Is Doing Good.

A dispatch from Indianapolis of recent date says: State Senator John W. Parks of Plymouth, author of the drastic anti-cigarette law, the cjnstitutionality of which is to be settled soon by the supreme court of Indiana while here today declared that the law is accomplishing a great reform although it has not fully stopped the smoking of “coffin nails.” “So far as 1 can find,” he said, “people generally approve the law and are asking for its enforcement.” Senator Parks thinks there is less respect here for the law than anywhere else in the state but attributes it to the decision of a judge of one of the local courts that the law does not prevent an individual from owning cigarettes so long as he don’t give them away. •‘I know that the purpose of the law was to prevent anyone from owning or smoking cigarettes,” he said, “and in my mind the legislature understood that to be the pur pose of the law. In other cities of the state the cigarette smoking has almost been stopped on the streets and in smaller places it has been s opped altogether. From the point of protection to the children the law is working great good, for it has made it very difficult for them to get them.”