Cigar

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Smoking Women ?

(Courtesy of Hal Boyle as published in the Oakland Tribune.)

Curbstone comments of a pavement Plato:

How can life bo made better for all in this woman's world we now dwell in?

Well, hore's an idea for a starter: Why not encourage the ladies to take up cigar smoking?

In an era in which more and morc value is placed on togetherness, tho cigar romains one of the few symbols of apartness.

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Women today talk like men, work like men, dress liko men and drink like men. But very few in this country anyway have learned to smoke like men.

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So far, in their invasion of former masculino prerogatives, the cigar has defeated thom. Stick a cigar in the average woman's kisser, and she doesn't know what to do with it. She looks a bit like an anteater trying to blow up a football.

But it is doubtful if fair womanhood will ever make a real success of the equal rights movement until the ladios master the art of striking a kitchen match on the bottom of their slacks and lighting up a cigar in confident ease.

Why don't more women tako up cigar smoking? Well, not for the reasons they give. They say cigars are dirty and nasty and smoll up the draperies. They say cigars taste bad a slander if ever there was one. There are

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