WOMEN AND SMOKING.
SOME SYDNEY FPfSGDES. [FB.OM Otm OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SYDNEY, May 33. A day or two ago, a young woman, wearing a Tam o'Shanter, shocked crowded Put Street by walking along that thoroughfare with a cigarette in her mouth. Men guffawed, women turned round and gaped. The young woman simply took no notice of anyone. Near Martin Place she sprang on to a tram, with the lighted cigarette still in her mouth. Perhaps the time is not far distant when no one will be surprised to see women smoking as they walk along the street?. A woman, who apparently felt impelled to write to the papers about it, says that, "at a recent race meeting at'Eandwiek.'shef saw a number of women in the stands in the paddock smoking just as mi-, concernedly as the men. bhe wonders whether she is old-fashioned. {
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19962, 2 June 1928, Page 8
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