The Boy Who Smokes Cigarettes
The Boy Who Smokes Cigarettes
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According to those critics, who included celebrities such as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, cigarettes made young people stupid, suppressed their motivation, ruined their academic performance, turned them into ne’er-do-wells and delinquents, and rendered them virtually unemployable. The striking parallels between the anti-cigarette propaganda of the early 20th century and the anti-pot propaganda that prohibitionists like DuPont and Bennett continue to disseminate suggest that responses to drug use have less to do with the inherent properties of the substance than with perennial fears that are projected onto the pharmacological menace of the day.
Led by Lucy Page Gaston, a former teacher from Illinois whose career as a social reformer began in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the anti-cigarette crusaders next insisted that complete prohibition was necessary to protect the youth of America. Between 1893 and 1921, 14 states and one territory (Oklahoma) enacted laws banning the sale of cigarettes, and in some cases possession as well.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.