[steve50]

Good piece Wind, thanks. I came across alot of this information when I first started researching prohibition. The schafferdrug library has some great reads from those days.

Can you imagine someone standing before congress and making these types arguements today?

[steve50]

I know you're not one of the Anti WOD crew SheLion, but there's some great info in this piece on earlier efforts to prohibit tobacco I thought you might get a kick out of.

Hope I don't offend you by pinging you here.

[steve-b]

Can you imagine someone standing before congress and making these types arguements today?

Actually, the arguments made today are pretty much the same in substance -- they're just stripped of the blatant racism and over-the-top sexual fears.