LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 118, 15 November 1945, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

WHY NOT IMPORT?

Sir,—-I wonder how much longer tobacco users are going to put up with their over-controlled tobacco shortage.

There are few experiences more humiliating and humbugging than to go round the tobacconists trying to get—not something for nothing, but something for which we want to pay and to which we are entitled—a grain of tobacco. Don't imagine that I consider there is any blame attachable to the retailers. They are powerless and find it equally trying to be turning hundreds away every day with a polite but threadbare, "Sorry." I am more concerned with a solution. If the manufacturers here cannot cope with the problem, and obviously they cannot, surely it is reasonable to expect that imports of tobacco and cigarettes would not only be allowed but encouraged. If the Government would relax the import restrictions this shortage along with others to which we as a people are subjected, would right itself almost overnight.—l am, etc., SHEER HUMBUG.