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Norwich Bulletin
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut
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In Washington on Feb. 3, Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist church's temperance board denied rumors of a push to prohibit tobacco, labeling liquor industry claims as hypocritical, while cautioning tobacco firms over past marketing to soldiers.
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Washington Feb. 3.--Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist church, issued a statement today saying that "the desperate effort of the outlawed liquor traffic to make credulous people believe that victorious prohibitionists will now demand a constitutional amendment against tobacco, not to mention dancing and failure to attend Wednesday evening prayer meeting, is the limit of hypocrisy."
"There is not now and will be," said the statement, "no movement to secure prohibition of tobacco, except perhaps its sale to minors, a proposal to which most smokers would readily agree. However, the tobacco men should take warning that many millions of people have warmly resented the forcing of cigarettes to those of our soldiers who were not previously accustomed to them, and that they have resented with indignation the placarding of the country with giant signs saying that 'Cigarettes Won the War' and similar advertising methods."
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Feb. 3
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Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist church, issued a statement denying any movement to secure prohibition of tobacco, except possibly its sale to minors. He criticized the liquor traffic's claims as hypocrisy and warned tobacco interests about public resentment over cigarette promotion to soldiers and wartime advertising.