Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1909 — Cigarette Law Still In, Force. [ARTICLE]

Cigarette Law Still In, Force.

From the number of boys jeen smoking cigarettes publicly in Rensselaer somebody must be laboring under the impression that the cigarette law has been repealed. The law was amended last winter to apply exclusively to minors, and the only other change made in it was to increase the maximum fine for the first violation from SSO to SIOO. The law as it now stands forbids any person directly or indirectly to sell, exchange, barter or give away any cigarette or cigarette paper to minors, under penalty of not less than $25 nor more than SIOO fine for the first offense, and not less than SIOO or moje than SSOO or a jail imprisonment for subsequent offenses. The law applies not only to dealers but to any person from whom the cigarettes are obtained, whether by purchase or gift.