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Originally Posted by G1911
Wagner's stance seems odd now but was not uncommon then - being anti-cigarette but fine with other tobacco's. Cigarette's seem to have born a social stigma that wasn't present for other types. There are many period articles like this, expressing a disapproval for the relatively-new-in-the-US-cigarettes but having no problem with other forms of tobacco.
I did another research dive and can still find no reference in primary literature to Plank and an opinion on tobacco or cigarette use.
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Oh, in practice his cigarette stance due to the amount of child smokers in the early 1900's actually makes sense. I only hold disagreement with the consistent misinformed statement that he was anti-tobacco as it is disingenuous.
I have more faith in the Plank statement as very little physical material exists to verify it, however in the reverse there is more than exists to disprove. Also, to be accepted in the rarified air of Connie Mack's "righteousness" you've got to be anti everything from soup to nuts, lol.
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