THE ANTI CIGARETTE GAllETTE CI LAW anti cigarette law carefully prepared and and triumphantly passed though it was has bus had bad about as lax enforcement as any statute that was ever placed upon the books Just why there should have been this extraordinary indifference no one can precisely explain tor for the public sentiment which demanded and approved ake enactment of the measure has not changed nor is there any reason to think there was going to be a cure tor for the evils sought to be bd remedied by merely passing the law and leaving it nevertheless the law has practically remained a dead letter in this part of the tha state a at t least dealers have violated it by selling cigarettes gar ettes with scarcely a pretense of 0 secrecy and users of tobacco have gone on violating it by smoking in in public places as aa defiantly and r offensively as it there were no law on oh f thi the subject at all prosecutors and officers have apparently waited tor for someone else to get bu busy sy pressing th thurial thai trial of offenders le and the latter hive have ac acted tedas as though they thought the was was a joke and was aras never infant ser rt jjr A Y