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Show THE LADY AND THE CIGARETTE It Is plain thit tho treasury de- psrtment doos not. believe the stories told about tho increasing ennsump tlon of tobacco among women. For If It did believe them 6urely It would not havj changed the order permitting permit-ting each" passenger, regardless of sex, to brln? in 'free of duty aud Internal revenue tax fifty cigars or ihree hundred hun-dred cigarettes." It has changed to provide that "each passenger over 18 years of age" may bring In the same pumber of cigars or cigarettes "for hi or her bona fide individual consumption." Clearly it Imagines that hy taking this change It merely makes it mpre difficult for men to get their tobacco duty free and that It puts no new temptation in the way of women'6 feet. The treasury department Is nothing if not gallant. Hence It woold seem that the women smokers, should they prove numerous, need have no fear. If many women are embarrassed. If many of them are compelled to admit that tho cigars or cigarettes brought in ty them are for their own bona fide. Individual and personal consumption, consump-tion, who can doubt that the treasury treas-ury department will discontinue the new rule nnd restore the old one? It coiUd not be so complimentary now without belns equal to such a contingency In the future. But, of course, if the woman smokers smok-ers lady smokers would doubtless ba a more accurate and descriptive term suffer n embarrassment from tho new order it will be allowel to stand If, as some fear, but the treasury department de-partment refuses to believe, we are making back for the days when grandma grand-ma sat In the sun and pulled her pipe unconcerned and unafraid, the order will cause no complaint. It will not be regarded either as an Insult or an unreafonable annoyance New York Globe. |