LADY SMOKERS.
On the walls of some London hotels and restaurants there are framed cards, saying that “Ladies are requested not to light cigarettes.” These places are chiefly the resort of the middle class, and so far as the women folk of that class are concerned the prohibition is no hardship. A few of them do smoke, it is true, but never in public. It is among “society” women that the cigarette habit is increasing. It has become general at most of their clubs, and is to be seen occasionally after dinner in some of the more fashionable restaurants. The majority of professional women have developed a taste for the soothing weed, and hundreds of the idler class smoke in their own hemes. *
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4646, 26 April 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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123LADY SMOKERS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4646, 26 April 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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