6d._ When we calculate the yearly expense of tobacco in this way, we are naturally taken aback, and our extravagance shocks us more after we have considered how much more satisfactorily the money might have been spent.

With _L33 4s.
6d._ you can buy new Oriental rugs for the drawing-room, as well as a spring bonnet and a nice dress.

These are things that give permanent pleasure, whereas you have no interest in a cigar after flinging away the stump.

Judging by myself, I should say that it was want of thought rather than selfishness that makes heavy smokers of so many bachelors.
Once a man marries, his eyes are opened to many things that he was quite unaware of previously, among them being the delight of adding an article of furniture to the drawing-room every month, and having a bedroom in pink and gold, the door of which is always kept locked.

If men would only consider that every cigar they smoke would buy part of a new piano-stool in terra-cotta plush, and that for every pound tin of tobacco purchased away goes a vase for growing dead geraniums in, they would surely hesitate.