WOMEN’S PIPES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1932, Page 12

WOMEN’S PIPES

FASHIONS IN SMOKING. LONDON, April 18. Mr Justice Charles’s remark in court that he had often smoked “twist,” and always smoked an ounce of tobacco a day, has stimulated conversation in the smoking world, es-. pocia-lly as regards individual prefe"cnces. Many elements go to determine fluctuations of taste in smoking, including the august decrees of the fair sex. “Strong tobaccos, such as twist and pigtail and nailrod,” said- the manager of an old and famous firm to a representative of the “Daily . Tele graph,” are usually in demand when licuts are going north for the auttimn shooting. We make a special brand for this purpose, but it is smoked only by gillies and seamen, as a rule.

“There is no doubt that the modern I demand for milder flavours and packet tobaccos has been influenced by the women. TJhe fact that we liv* 3 in towns and houses, and have to consider our neighbours has also something to do with it. We have a worn an client, famous for her learning, who smokes pipes and men’s tobacco but this is exceptional, and the pipes that women smoke are hardly the real thing according to men’s ideas. “The chief change in recent years has been the way in which the cigarette has supervened. We used to specialise in a few choice brands long before the war, but it was the. war that etablished its vogue. The cigar sustained a blow by the 50 per cent, ad-valorem duty of years ago, and has never quite recovered. “T.he use of snuff is steadily increasing, for various reasons. One is that many physicians recommend it ns a preventive of colds. In the Midlands and the North it has never died away, as it looked like doing in London years ago. We still use some of the old recipes of over a century ago, but the tendency is towards the weaker makes. “Women are taking to it more than they used, and perhaps it is that they admire the elegant gestures of the "ashionable snuff-taker as they see him in the older comedies.”