On Women Smokers, The New York
Times, February 29, 1928
Be
it resolved, that the National W.C.T.U. [Women's Christian Temperance Union]
encourages further scientific research into the effects of nicotine and urges
all public and private school teachers and Sunday school workers, both by
precept and example, to assist in an educational campaign to make these effects
known with a view to instructing the youth as to the well-proven facts of
science; and
Be
it further resolved, that the National W.C.T.U. brands as untrue the charge
made by the Association Opposed to National Prohibition that we are engaged in
a secret campaign for an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting tobacco. . .
.
[Mrs.
Ella A. Boole, President of the New York State organization says:]
"We
are working on this question from a scientific standpoint and from and
educational standpoint. After all, the duty of motherhood is still relegated to
the women of the nation. Just as long as that is true we must protect the
coming generation by teaching the present one the effects of the habit of
smoking on the unborn. . . ."