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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20852, 7 October 1937, Page 3

For the umpteenth time somebody has been complaining to an Auckland paper of the invasion by ladies of the smoke-cars on the local trams. This correspondent boarded a smoke-car to find it full of women, so full that he had to forego his pipe and retire to the non-smoking compartment—which was almost empty. Women used to shun smoke-cars on trams and trains, now they rush them! How is it? It’s probably this way: Smokers, as we all know, are for more fastidious, as a rule, than formerly in their choice of the weed. The modern preference at all events In New Zealand, is for “toasted” tobacco, i.e., Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, all of which are remarkable for their delicious bouquet. Ladies say they “love it.” That is doubtless why they now flock to the cars they used to avoid! But it’s rough on the men who after perhaps a hard day’s work in town, have to go without their homeward bound smoke