THE LAST PUFF

Now that Prohibition has become an accepted fact in the Nation's life and no one dreams any longer of taking a drink, the reformers have turned their attention to the evil of smoking. As steps to its complete abolition, they propose prohibition of smoking in public places, especially restaurants and theatres, the omission of smoking scenes from moving pictures, and forbidding the advertising of tobacco products.

Case after case of the evils of the tobacco curse will fill the newspapers. "Jones, crazed by smoke, beats wife and evicts children from home," and "Smith, arrested on a charge of giving a cigarette to his twenty year old son breaks down, confesses he got the idea from movies." Little six year old Annie will stumble through the blue haze that fills the local blind tiger, and, her eyes streaming with tears, murmur pathetically "I've come to take Daddy home."

With examples like these the campaign cannot fail of success. One more amendment to the Constitution will help render law-enforcement more nearly impossible. A new sort of bootlegger will arise, who, after saluting his customer with a knowing wink, will offer "A carton of pre-war Luckies, toasted and aged in the wood--genuine stuff, best on this side of the Atlantic!"