PIPE OR CIGARETTE ?

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15746, 13 November 1916, Page 8

PIPE OR CIGARETTE ?

♦- - THE 'TAG" THE BADGE OFUNTIDINESS. A "smoking census" of a cerUnrb£ talion was taken at the reqyest of tW adjutant, who delights in stattetie®, «■ the result was sent to a London paP" by a correspondent. The actual percentage of smoker? low, comparatively speaking, being o J ,65 per ccfct. Of these 40 per cent, smoked pipes, and the rest nothing 'Ttr' -found tUt the cigg.W smokers were the untidiest men battalion —those who mvaxmb£ gj their things about and ottered space around their beds with paper matohes. t . .. the The pipe-smoking section most orderly in the battahon were la* petty offences among «e than among cither the cigarette peop or the non-smokers. one .half Of the nearly on were frequent visitors to the fact which, in the opinion of-tha-UJ tant, pointed to the heal thin «. r smoking. But the medicaloor^ r thinks that it is the other way rounjthat because this section docs n good health, smoking is s f Ol "^ - c co fch There was one snuff-taker, a J{ sergeant, and one man ( T>u BO j down as "an opium fiendj humor-, believed, as he was the bat-alion 16 All the non-commissioned office« one smoked —not countmc the taker—a fact which niay -—otkm smoking privates desirous of to change their habits. satisfied The adjutant says that he us sa» with the cent-us.