Edward Southwick, state senator from Lehi, as shown in U t a h Since Statehood, vol. 2.
Cigarette Prohibition in Utah, 1921-23 BY J O H N S. H . S M I T H
A H E EARLY YEARS OF T H E twentieth century were marked by many profound and significant changes in the nature of American life. None carried more potential for basic change in the social fabric than the struggle initiated by elements of the Progressive movement to change the nature of society through legislation designed to remake human lives in a more positive and productive mold through the elimination of a range of "social evils." The most colorful manifestations of this effort were the various prohibition movements, of which liquor prohibition is the most celeMr. Smith is a teaching fellow and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of
Utah.
