THE CIGARETTE HABIT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 November 1907, Page 3

THE CIGARETTE HABIT.

SUM JESTED SOIXTKiX JiV THE J>.VXfMT. Ihe smoking of cigarettes is increasing. and Urn iva>on whv thi- tVrm o'" imlul'ojnc,. i„ tobacco N .'.uNt ripping the n*i- of pipe ~r cigar are int<Mv-4n,.r^ S: ,v, s the Lancet. A really good cigarYs ev pen-ive. ami to be appreciated it mu-r be -moked at lei-ure. However good the cigar may be. 1 In* smoke is stroii". heavy. and lingering compared with that of tln> cigarette. The pipe, of cnnise. fait lie taken up at any time, hut lln u>e ol tlie pipe involve* sonic preparation, and entails also a. larger .irmamentarium. The pip,, smoker must carry with him. besides his pipe, his tobacco in a pouch. I hi- of (he cigarette habil Is that the smoker consumes more tobacco in that tuvm than lie would in any othe.\ The cigar and pip., soon salisfv'the tobaceo eraving: tin- cigarette smoker > rarely warned in time of his excess, ihr cigarette appears a- a mild form ot Miioking of which ihe smoker never tire-;, and cigarette replaces cigarette with praet ically little intermission tinnughout tile whole day. Few can deny that *m.di a practice N verv injurious to health, and the slaves to it f hard to break the chain which hinds them. I lie ready-made cigarette is largely for (he enormous growth of this servitude. and (o thoH*-. who are eoiwioiis of having acquired an injurious habit of indulgence which they are honestly anxious to reduce, if not to abandon altogether, I hero is one. piece of advice which is seldom known to ' fail. 1

Let the inveterate cigarette smoker give up the ready-made cigarette: let him buy pure paper and good tobamt; let him make his cigarette just before lie it: and he will find that he will c<.jwi|uonMy smoke fewer cigarettes and be all Ihe better for it. Sii*h a method, if honestly adopted, would make an end to the "chain" smoker, who. when ho ha- nearly finished a cig-* are 11 e, iinniedialely proceed- to light another trom the expiring emhoy. and ends the day with an appalling consumption of 50 cigarettes or more.