RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30646, 12 January 1965, Page 18

RANDOM REMINDER

SALAD DAYS

Beer and tobacco go together as easily as bacon and eggs, tripe and onions, women and gossip. Both are important to many men, but where there is a strong urge among the male population to brew beer at home, attempts at providing one’s own tobacco have usually ended with dock leaves, a hiding, and childhood. Except in sunny Nelson, It is difficult to grow tobacco, and that explains why men prefer to buy.

their cigarettes and tobacco. But a recent announcement from America could very well change all that The president of a new cigarette company said his firm had developed a cigarette which was satisfying to the taste and to the family physician. He meant it was all right to smoke, and safe. He also said the cigarette was made from the outer leaf of the lettuce plant The rest Is pretty obvious. Out, next season,

with the spinach, the cabbages and the carrots. In with the lettuce plants, row on row of them. No room, now, for tomatoes and beans and celery and beet; there is going to be ■ rush on lettuce. And, the manufacturer says, it will be possible to produce different aromas, tastes and flavours. It might open up all sorts of possibilities. Perhaps the pipe smoker who is really with it will top off the bowl with a touch of mayonnaise?