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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 December 1933, Page 5

iSmoking in tram-cars has given rise to quite an animated correspondence in a Melbourne (paper. “I think men are abominably selfish/’ runs one letter, ‘‘smoking their horrible pipes and cigarettes they will enter a car perhaps half full of ladies, many of whom (even in this ‘advanced’ day) find tobacco smoke most offensive. Surely these men might refrain from smoking for the little, while they, are travelling by tram? . Is that asking too much of them? But the courtesy formerly paid to my sex is dead.” Now isn’t that about the limit? Special ears are provided for the use or smokers, and yet ladies (who don’t smoke in public conveyances) will persist in rushing them,' with the result that smokers are ‘‘crowded out.” Happily complaints about tobacco-smoke are rare in N.Z. — because most men here smoke ‘‘Toasted,” and its pure, sweet fragrance disarms criticism. All four brands — Cavendish, Navy ICut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold', and 'Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead) —are practically without nicotine (being toasted), and perfectly harmless.—'Advt.