Henry Ford, 1916 How Employers Feel Toward Cigarette Smokers Here is an Automobile Companyís Attitude
ìCigarette smoking is acquiring a hold on a great many boys in our communityÖ. Since it is such a bad practice and is taking such a hold upon so many people, we think it is a disgrace for a grown man to smoke cigarettes, because it is not only injurious to his health, but it is such a bad example to the boysÖ.î
Source: Henry Ford, The Case Against the Little White Slaver, 1916. (reprinted by the Historical Society of Michigan, 1992)
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