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""ACCO MC.kCHA!.TS ASS')C.141IO[. l>f THt_ U.S. CO''iSITI'kF OF' FIhTY. Vcea York City ) . In biarch, 1818, the Committee of Fifty was formed to perteot a eorld wide orFanieation of the enemios of tobaooo. It is to conduct a scientific investig-ition into the "Physical horrors" wrought by tobaooo. 1he nssoointion is modeled upon tlie Committee ot Firty which investiRated the liquor problem. Lr. rNEene Lymsn Fisk, ona of tiio riajsicr.# is also Medioal Lireotor of the Lire F:xtension Institute. In speakinR of the plans of the Conasittee of Fifty, he says: "There is no +:utho•ritRtive analysis of th. situation as yet. The matter is just now beinR broup,ht to the tor• and is destined to ooeupy a conspicuous plaoe. Therefore the public should have the true faots. We propose to ^:ot thes.# th. work saay take us years. When it is finished we shall render a report covering all phases of the tobacco question and people oen then decide intelligently what they want to do about it. To facilitate the investigation the Committee will be divided ir,to se nrnte seations, suoh as physioloqioal, medical and sociological. ~he use of land for tabaooo oul,tivation; snread of fires by smokinR "and various collateral reatters involving public welfare" Kill be considered. Dr. Alexander Lnnmbert, of ?:ew York City, is Chairman of the Fseeutive Conueittee, And Sir 0illism Osler of Oxford University is R raeraber. ' Several merrbers of the Committee have expressed anti-tobaooo views,, as will be saen in the oompiletion noteds Prof. H. W. F'Arnam, Yale University, author of "Yrestetlal Investments" and "Tobacco and the.Soldier". In the first pamphlet he citncusses the waste in land thru tobaeco pro. duction; waste in buoi::ess t2:ru reciuotion of efficiency in. workers and losCes thru f ires caused by careless smokers. In "Tobacco and the t',oldiers" he nr_p,ues that tobacco impairs military e!'ficienoy. !le is aleo the nuthor of "Our Tobacco Bill" in the Urmopular Review of January, 1914. George 1J, Fishcr, :..,L., Director j'hyaioal ~,or'- Sureau,, Inter- national Yar.n~ :-Ien 's Chri stian Assooiation, hns Aritten the following artiolcss "'i`he C~ese ngainst 6-rokes" • ThysioLoriAal Effects of :.Trokini". Prot. Irv;.n;z r'iahcr oL' YK1o Univeraity is tizo author of the pamphlot "Is the Tobaooo Habit Injurious". Dr. J, )1. .~ello~l; of bnttle CNeed :Anitariura lvas writtan such articlos as "TobnCsco Yoisons"f "Ciqnrotte Lpidenio"j "]?isea.ses cnused by Tobncco". lludson ~Axisn ia quoted in "The Caoe a;;linst the Little 14hS.t4 Slaver", anu is tho author of "Paisonous Gnsas in the War". Proi', sruce i•ink of Oxford Univer5ity, I;iama, Ohio, is the • author of tho "•1'obaoco NRbit". Prot. i'rederick ~~. Roman of Syracuse Univoraity is the aut?aoSr of "2Jibotine 2lext" , LA 0 w a rv N ~ w i

AHACCO MLRClIANTS AS3OC1A11OV UI 1NF. U.S. Henry 1'ord io nutliority for tho pnmphlets "The Cnae i,n,Rin..t' tLo Little t.111te Sl.•iver". 11hio eo>;taiT.s n letter of endorse- rnent from Thos. e1. v-c;ison. The boo'ds is rrade up from "soien« tifio fnots", (rc:ot ations fron c?octors, professors, soiontistss eto. ). 11as r elunptar on "Itos F:mployers I'eel lorrerd Cigarett• :mokers"j Ath] -to nnd Ci~~irettes and i'inRi~.y the Rtory of a boys $ reforzrRtion t2:ru riving up cirxrettes. ::arvey w, Wiley is also voted i» this ;*rphlet. . ysio).ory of riorthaestern hr. swinfield S, 1i411, Professor of Ph* University we<;ion1 sc•hnol ;ads a booklet entitled "Tobnoco". :rofeesors U. 17. FArn}ua, 0. W. Fisher, Irving Pishevi r'. s. Iiall, are i^cnbers of the liyfii.ne Referenee board of the l+ife Extension Inatitute. 1 i i , . .:.a_.:.rs..fl:a.~.~KAL,V.ts~.Nwo!-:.aW.a.•.:6•.....es...~•,vi•.u..:a,....'.....;.......,;c...~. ....-... •. ...w,.. .

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