CIGARETTE SMOKING.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 4 June 1919, Page 3

CIGARETTE SMOKING.

INDULGED IN BY GIRLS. • The extent to which cigarette-smok-ing by girls has extended is indicated by the fact thai the Young Women's Christian Association is considering whether it ought to give its official toleration to the habit (states a Loudon correspondent). During the war cigur-rcttc-smoking by girls rapidly extended to every class, and now that the war is over it is not likely to be given up, although the largo addition to the ranks of smokers often results in the tobacconists being sold out. In the restaurants, the tea-shops, the trains, and business offices girls do not hesitate to produce their cigarette-cases and "light up." The I'oung 'Women's Christian Association is finding it impossible to ' bar the girl smoker from its hostels. Home of these hostels have officially recognised the evil to the extent of providing smoking-rooms for girls. The point of view of the'officials conducting these hostels is that if girls will smoke, they should not be debarred on that account from the moral influences and benefits of the Y.W.C.A. But the officials of other hostels look on the practice of smoking with grave disapproval, and are anxious that the Y.W.C.A. should not countenance it.