GRACEFUL WOMEN SMOKERS.
A smoking conies! for women — the prizes being awarded on the grace with which the contestants could handle their cigarettes as they dialled at. tea —was a novel tea I lire of I lie recent tobacco trade exhibition in London. ,
Hundreds of people crowded aboiit llie small enclosure where a dozen inodishly-gowned women, .-omcwhal ill at case, puffed with the utmost possible grace at cigarettes whoso tips were tinted to match their gowns.
The men’s contest for pipe smokers also was held, the prize going to the man who could keep his eighth of an ounce of tobacco burning the longest. The winners have not yet been announced, although it is understood that the previous record of 2 hours 12 minutes was beaten.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2318, 20 August 1921, Page 1
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126GRACEFUL WOMEN SMOKERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2318, 20 August 1921, Page 1
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