SMOKING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19976, 19 June 1928, Page 12

SMOKING.

Sirj—When will those people who do not smoke themselves stop trying to give the horrors to us poor benighted' mortals who do ? If we believed the half of what Uiev tell us about tobacco we should certainly die of fright, if of nothing else. It is always a great consolation to us, however, after reading hair-raising tirades like the one that appeared lately in the Herald, to know that perhaps in the next column wo will read an announcement something like this:—"Ther,e has just passed away (or maybe got married) Mr. So and So at the ripe old age of 100 or thereabouts." .And then conies the cheering part. "He was, or is, always fond of his pipe." Even one of these hearty old men not long since, who is happily still going strong, added to a reporter along with this admission: "Aye, and my pint of beer, too, or a wee nip of whisky when I could afford it." Another great consolation we have when they tell us we are filthy and unsanitary and so on, is that we have as company in our degradation of being smokers of tobacco great men and leading lights in all the learned professions throughout the world, physicians, judges, lawyers, writers, etc., people who ought to know as much about what constitutes right or wrong, good or bad, as the wowsers. P.M.