SMOKING BY WOMEN.

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1928, Page 7

SMOKING BY WOMEN.

IS IT DECLINING? SOME CHRISTCHURCH VIEWS CHRISTCHURCH, Nov 2, Is the love of my lady fair for my • ady nicotine suffering a< decline? Prom views expressed by several leading Christchurch tobacconists to a reporter to day it looks as though this is the case, though one or two smoke vendors did noiT'agrcc with th.*. majority of their' class. ‘ ‘ Snroking was just a craze with the majority of women,” said one, “and like all crazes ie dying out-. 1 do not get half the number of womc'n in my shop now after cigarettes that I had sonic little time ago. Th y haven t taken to it as a habit at all generally, though there are some heavy smokers who really enjoy it.” Another man agreed that many women had smoked and still smoked at bridge afternoons and so on chiefly because it. was the thing to do.' The cigarettes were offered and taken as a matter of course, but not as a matt ir qf absolute liking as with men. <4 l’m sure that smoking among women i Cosing its hold” r marked the fair assistant of yot another tobacconist. “This is the* in-between-spel? and they are waiting fur th” next craze to come along. Goodness knows what that will be.” A staunch advocate of th? “stiil- - among women y group advanid a deliberated theory. He said that when smoking at first took on with wottnen in New Zealand they seemlod to buy the vEry b st brands and the perfumed brands which showed the whole thing was just a fashion to be carried out in style. Now the women cigarette smokers had got down to tin tacks and bought standard brands. He cannot see how the fact that a tobacconist has fewer women coming into his shop riow than he used to have can be* advanced* as a concrete reason for saying that smoking is losing its hold on them. The fact does not nrqan much. The customers may b v going .elsewhere or getting their cigarettes bought for them now that they have settled on one of thio three most popular standard brands they seem to affect.