SMOKING IN THEATRES
Sir,—l notice in your discussion regarding the New Zealand week-end that you quote a returned serviceman’s complaint that smoking is not allowed in New Zealand theatres. Thank heavens for that! is what I—and I am sure a great many other picturegoers—say. By the end of a session the atmosphere of most' theatres is stuffy enough, and what it would be like with the addition of the smoke from innumerable cigarettes I can just imagine. Non-smokers are already inconvenienced enough at interval-time, when the thundering herd tramps over their feet on their way to the exits, but this is probably preferable to viewing one’s favourite actor or actress through the murk and gloom of a smoky theatre.—l am, etc., Defense de Fumer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26777, 21 May 1948, Page 6
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