SELFISHNESS OF SMOKERS.
Why is it that smokers are so often so inconsiderate of the comfort of others? It is difficult to get away from the swallowing of second-hand smoke these days. Pla,ces of amusement are thick with it, and one cannot even dine in many restaurants without being forced to endure the unpleasantness of someone else's selfish pleasure. On the trams and the trains where, smoking compartments are set apart the selfish, inconsiderate smoker "'ill swank in amongst non-smokers and consider himself the injured innocent if the slightest exception is taken to his puffing his smoke into some lady's face. Have tram conductors and guards been instructed to ignore- these happenings? No notice has ever been taken of such breaches of the rule in any tram or train I have travelled in recently. If a man wishes to smoke, by all means let him do so, and enjoy it, but does he not owe it to those who do not enjoy smoking that he takes his pleasure in such a way that it will not he a source of discomfort to others? WELL SMOKED.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 247, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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185SELFISHNESS OF SMOKERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 247, 19 October 1933, Page 6
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