Cigarette smoking by boys

Commenting on the reply given by the Punjab Government that to prohibit by law the sale of cigarettes to juveniles, a private member of the Legislative Council may introduce a Bill, Madras contemporary points out how universarl the evil practice has been. "It is an undoubted fact," says our contemporary, "that the cigarette has become familiar to a large crowd of boys of an age, such that a generation ago they would have been sucking sugar-sticks rather than cigarettes." When the vice is so largely prevalent, it is the duty of Government to do something to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to children. The Governments of Caylon, Mysore and Baroda have already prohibited the sale, and there should be no difficulty in adopting the same measures in other part of India.