SMOKING IN PUBLIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 252, 25 October 1933, Page 6

SMOKING IN PUBLIC.

The subject of smoking in public was discussed by "Well Smoked" in a recent issue of your paper. There are many points in this topic worthy of consideration both by those who smoke and those who do not. I am a smoker in a moderate way. Yet I agree with "Well Smoked" —so was the fish we had for breakfast—that it i 9 not a privilege to those who indulge in tobacco to blow smoke in the faces of others. I dislike smoking in a'restaurant, and I consider it ill-mannered for any person to puff the noxious weed whilst sitting at table while another is taking food. I might smoke at a smoke concert, but that seems different somehow. A smoke concert by any other name—anyhow, what would you do at such a function if you did not smoke? What would a sailor who chews do with a quid of "baccy" if he couldn't spit in the sea? Now for the tramcar habit. Personally, although I myself sometimes smoke tin the trams, yet I think this could be well forgone t>y the habitues of the smoking compartment. Yet I would remind the ladies that they apparently do not seem to mind this indulgence by the men. Why they themselves refrain from smoking in a tram when they are tie worst offenders in the restaurant is a puzzle. Perhaps it is their fondness for the old "baccy" smoke that accounts for the apparent thoughtlessness on their part in occupying seats in the smoker when there is often more room available in the other. As a matter of fact, among many men the smoking compaxtpent of the local trams is regarded as the dailies' compartment. 'BATAI