BRIDGE AND CIGARETTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15100, 24 March 1911, Page 6

BRIDGE AND CIGARETTES.

REPLY TO MR ELL,

(FttOM One OVVM CORBESPfIHDENT.) AUCKLAND, March 23. "A leading dentist hae told Mr £11, of Cliristchureh, that the greater part of hie business was the whitening of women's teeth, which had ken blackened through smoking, do doubt when playing bridge/' To that statement the leading Auckiar.d dentists apply unanimously the adjective "exaggerated." One of' thoir number told a reporter that it was an very rare occasions that a female patient came Iα him for attention with her to:-th in ench a condition, though ho knew that smoking among ladies was io-irly prevalent. Teeth would only be hladcencd. he said, after smoking had been indulged in constantly and heavily, and the effects of such indulgence, particularly on ladies. would bo decidedly " injurious." Tho practice of whitening la<lias' teeth after they had beon blackened by smoking would not form 5 per cent, of the business of a leading dentist in New Zealand.

"I don't think there ie an habitual cigarette smoker among the ladies of Auckland," said the mana2er of a large dentil establishment. Several tobaetol' '"s on being questioned in regard tstho demand for ladies' cigarettes said tihat as far as they could judge it was a demand that wae growing in New Zealand. The nature of some of their orclern fiom customers led them to believe that cigarettes were often provided for functions such as bridge parties, but the quantities were usually small.