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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 6

"The little courtesies of life formerly paid to my sex by the opposite one are mostly ignored to-day," laments a lady in writing to a Sydney paper. "Look at our trains and trams. Men travelling by them will not hesitate to smoke in the presenee of ladies although they know perfectly well that inany of the latter, even now, find tobacco smoke offensive. 1 call it mdst selfish and ill-mannered. " This fair correspondent seeras quite oblivious of the fact that special eaia are reserved in Augtralia as in New Zealand for the use of non-'smokers. Tet ladies still persist in rushing the smoking conipartments so that smokers are often crowdod out. Happily so far as .New Zealand is coneerned cpmplaints about tobacco smoke are far less common than formerly becanse mosr, New Zealanders now smoke "toasted," and its pure sweet fragrance disarms criticism. All five of the toasted blends, Cut Plug No, 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold are (being toasted) almost innoccnt. of nicotine and consequently virtually harmlesa.*