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Show M , ' RIGHTS OF THE SMOKER. PpH Question Has Disturbed Lejriulatlve H Minds in the "Mother of H Parliaments." PpH Time was, nnd not long age, when Jpi smoking was legardeil as u "nasty" 1 habit, and tho devotee of pipe or cigar PJI was banished to the garden or tho M ' Btablos. Nowadays smokora are in tho H majority, and It Is not surprising that H .thoy BhoiiUl war agalnBt what they ro- PpH gard us tho Intolerance of tho minor- PpH lty. Middle-aged smokers remember H their banishment to tho stables, while Jpi tho younger generation, although not PH lacerated by memories of persecution JPJ or Intolerance, claims, In tho spirit of PJI , tho ago, tho right to smoke almost H ovorywhoro. Tho attitude of Mr. H Cromblo. M. !., who raised the mica- J tlon of smoking In tho libraries of tho PH Itrltlsh house of commons, suggests PH that the reformod smoker may Become JPJ oven loss tolerant of tho uso of tobac- PH co than the man who has been a life- JPJ long abstainer from the weed. Mr. JPJ (Jromblo's piotest against permitting J ono parllanr itary llbrap- out of flvo JPJ to bo smoked in, ulthou ti supported H by 119 mombers, was rejected by a H majority of 11:5. It is evident from H tho remarks of Mr. Harcourt nud other H members that tho "besj club In Lon- JB don" Is overcrowded; but membors of J tho house who object to tho uso of H tobacco and It must bo confessed H that many peoplo aro nauseated by the H y smell will have no serious grievance JH In Rurrendeilng ono library out of five H to tho smokers. |