NICOT’S MEMORY HONOURED
FRENCH SMOKERS IN CONGRESS.
“QUEEN OF TOBACCO’ ’HAS PIPE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Paris, Nov. 16. The national smokers’ congress to-day celebrated the 400th anniversary of the;, birth of Jean Nioot, who was first to introduce tobacco into France.
The congress elected a Queen of Tobacco,whose qualifications were that she liked cigarettes and could smoke a pipe. She sampled cigars in private.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1930, Page 7
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