LOOKING BACK ALONG TOBACCO ROAD
UTIFUL daughters once filled father’s pipe for him and lit it. Daughters now line up in queues, competing with fathers, brothers, mothers and boy friends, seeking the elusive cigarette. We surprised our tobacconist the other day with our opening gambit. We did not
ask him to add to his chronic stoop and fetch something from under the counter, but sought an answer to a question! We wanted to know the proportion of men to women smokers in New Zealand, *T guess it’s about 50-50," he. said. "But it’s hard to find the true answer
because some women might — I said might-be buying smokes for their menfolk." Then the man behind the counter cursed the man who started us smoking. That was probably Ralph Lane, first governor of Virginia, who is credited with having been the first English smoker at any rate. But it was through the influence and example of the illustrious Raleigh "who tooke a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffolde," that smoking became common among Elizabethan courtiers. Fulminations against the habit have been bitterly personal and literary. Once no gentleman ever smoked in the presence of a lady. If he were permitted, through womanly graciousness, to take. a whiff, he did it in a part of the house reserved for himself and in smoking jacket and cap. Nowadays a packet of ten will find the way to many a maiden’s heart. The history of tobacco is lost in the mists of Red Indian mythology, but we will hear quite a lot about it and its addicts if we listen to 2YA at 7.15 p.m. on Monday, February 4, when the first of a series of talks will be heard. The title will be "Pernicious Weed . . ... Sublime Tobacco: ‘Phe Story of a Habit."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 19
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304LOOKING BACK ALONG TOBACCO ROAD New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 19
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