--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 22 number: 5 published: 1919-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Whiskey and Tobacco,\" *Improvement Era* 22, no. 5 (March 1919): 452–453." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2205unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2205unse start_page: 452 end_page: 453 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2205unse publication_year: 1919 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Whiskey and Tobacco Whiskey and Tobacco Ratification of the National Prohibition amendment was formally proclaimed on January 29, 1919, by Frank L. Polk, Act- ing Secretary of State. It is expected that the law will become EDITORS' TABLE 453 effective January 16, 1920, a year after the ratification by Ne- braska, the 36th state to take favorable action. New York and Vermont ratified the amendment January 29, 1919; so far 45 states have approved the amendment. In a little less than 87 years following the declaration of Joseph Smith, the prophet: "Inasmuch as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father," the people of the United States have come practically to a unanimous conclusion that he was right on this subject. We hope it will not be long before his other emphatic declaration: "Tobacco is not for the body* * * and is not good for man, but is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle," will be adopted with similar unanimity by the people of our Nation. In- deed, there are strong movements in this direction already in operation. Utah and Idaho should be among the first of the states to legally prohibit its sale and use. Let all the stores controlled by Latter-day Saints accelerate the movement by de- claring that henceforth tobacco will not be sold by them. What large institution will start the movement? How many individ- uals will help by quitting tobacco of their own accord?