BLIND SMOKERS
FIGURES FROM ST. DUNSTAN’S The view that, it is difficult to enjoy smoking unless one can .actually see the smoke is disproved by an unofficial census among the sightless men at St. Dunstan’s. Nearly 2000 war-blinded ex-service-men are under the care of St. Dunstall’s, and it was found that more than 05 per cent were ardent smokers, both of cigarettes and pipes. At the Brighton St. Dunstnn’s. •Inch is used as a convalescent and holiday home, it is estimated that over a period of nearly 20 years 98 per cent, of those who have stayed there have smoking.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 7
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100BLIND SMOKERS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 7
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