WOMEN SMOKING EVERYWHERE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3487, 15 May 1920, Page 2

WOMEN SMOKING EVERYWHERE

Women, who already smoke in restaurants, rz_lilway' "trains and busi\ ness offices, have now begun to P,-0-dnco their cig:ll'eH'c cases at pu];];¢ meetings. Se.\'el'al of the women delogm-(‘S przisent at the iinportant conference held at the .\;[inistr_y of Food by Hm Consunlers’ Council nneoncernedly puffed axvny at their cigarettes w11i1(_. zlttentively listening to the (liscussiml_ “After yr,-:1. please,” one woman ‘.\’-as heard to \\'hi.<per 10' :1 Labour Ml’, who had 21 box of matelies. “I like to smnke on sueli oee:lsior.< because I find I can think more clearly,” was the explanation given to 3, Daily Express reporter by one woman of affairs. Others prefer to regard their smoking has 3 social instifuion, and confine it to hours of leisure. “Now that: so many women smoke, and smoke so much, the necessity for laying down rules of etiquette for women smokers has become manifest‘.

Each wonmu is at present ‘a law to llel'self. Some women only smoke in their own house or club, others who indulge in a cigarette at :1 restaurant 01' in hotel lounge draw the line at smoking in trains. Others who go so far as to smoke in :1 train look roprovingly at the woman who smokes on an omnibus, and 'eolnparafively few women make a habit of smoking in rhe open air.