Someone has sent me in another capacity five pounds to
hand to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with an explanation which seems to me to deserve some publicity. " At the beginning of 1946," she writes, " I decided to give up smoking, as I preferred not to be dependent on ' Virginian.' I have often thought that the logical corollary was to send as a free gift to the Exchequer something at least of the duty on ' cigarettes I have not smoked,' with the hope (a slender one perhaps) that others might do the same." I wonder whether the hope need in fact be so slender. Such an example of good citizenship should inspire emulation. A voluntary sacrifice which saves dollar expenditure without reducing national revenue would, if adopted on a sufficient scale, solve a difficult financial
problem effectively.
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