THE SMOKING CONTROVERSY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6823, 29 September 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE SMOKING CONTROVERSY.

The great and ancient controversy about the evils of smoking has broken put afresh in tie columns of the of the London Morning. Post and t}ii3 time in combination with Uμ" wj older argument as to tbe comparative vicea of the eeses. " A Srabker'e Wife" draira a lamentable picture of the condition to which, her husband, who was in the habit of smoking 10 pipes a day, had been reduced by'fcis favourite vice. "Ha has given up in consequence all social enjoyments, dinner parties concerts, the opera, and full Chursu service , ' (is the latter a "social enjoyment," by the way) " because he cannot remain more than »n hour without hia favourite, and I m&y I eay hk only, pleasure." -..-.-An indignant j champion of the male sex eaps this story by that of a female offender, who " is a cigarette and cigar consumer, yonng and handsome, but far from effeminate; extremely good ia the saddle, and better still at tight lacing; her baby left for her nurae or husband to take care of while she sits reading'aprels and smoking weeds.' This (observes a (lontemperary) is an equality of the a«xes, iadeed, of which philogynisTv champions have little dreamed, and which we may assume they as little desire. . . . ■■'. '