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by the students. Many railway companies and other large 

 employers refuse to take on young men who smoke. In Min- 

 neapolis one hundred of the leading business men agreed 

 not to give employment to young men who smoked. 



Many officers in the army and navy and probably most of the 

 railway officials and large employers and business men smoke. 

 Yet they realize that they can get better service from young 

 men who do not smoke. It is not a matter of sentiment or 

 prejudice with them ; it is strictly a matter of business. 



199. Economic and so- , - . - - ^ 



I _ 95 Non-smokers _ fcgfl 



cial problems. Aside 

 from the injury that to- 

 bacco-smoking doeS tO 



40 Non-smokers 



growing young people, FIG. 58. Smoking and scholarship 



the economic side Of Showing the proportion of smokers (shaded space) 

 the Question is Simplv anc ^ ^ non " sm k ers (white space) among the stu- 

 dents of highest rank (first bar) and among students 

 Whether, tor the Same of ordinary rank (second bar) at Yale University 



expenditure of human 



effort as is required to raise, 1 cure, handle, manufacture, and 

 distribute the tobacco and various smokers' appliances, people 

 could get more fun out of life. Certainly those who enjoy 

 smoking, numbering into the hundreds of millions, feel that 

 they are getting their money's worth in this form of enjoy- 

 ment, and it is impossible to say to them that those of us who 

 do not smoke are having more pleasure or satisfaction. 



The social and aesthetic sides of the question can be seen 

 more definitely. 



1. The smoke of tobacco is distinctly offensive to the non- 

 smoker. To be sure, we can get used to that, we can learn to 

 stand it, but in and of itself it is a nuisance. 



2. The perspiration of the smoker frequently becomes 

 modified so that it is distinctly objectionable. 



1 Over a million acres of good land are worked in this country every year 

 for raising tobacco. Over two hundred and twenty-five thousand persons are 

 engaged in the manufacture and sale of tobacco products, besides the farmers 

 and the makers of pipes, boxes, labels, and so on. 



