Tobacco Road
SMOKING is such a widespread custom, and seems so absolutely necessary to countless people, that one wonders how the western world lived before 1492. Were its nerves quietened then in other ways? Even the Nesta Pain production didn’t answer this one for me, although it did plot the highway of nicotine through the blood stream. And, of course, for sheer enjoyment it would be hard to beat this programme (heard from 3YC), which began with a boy being strapped for smoking by a master who was just "dying" for a cigarette himself, recounted Mark Twain’s assertion that it was easy to give up smoking (he had a thousand times), and ended with the smoker coughing his way through a justification of his pet vice. On the serious side statistics and research laid a great many superstitions and came out with one grave warning for heavy smokers of 45 or over, owing to the danger of contracting cancer of the lungs. I did not lay the ghost, though, of a seemingly inherited smoker’s cough which viciously attacks me in the morning as soon as I begin gulping down the splendid winter air.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 10
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193Tobacco Road New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 10
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