” ‘Rather zealous but well-meaning people would have us ban smoking and drinking and a host of other things that we enjoy’, the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair, said last week.
“Opening the Myrtleford, Victoria, Tobacco and Hops Festival on Wednesday, Mr Sinclair said there were few better reasons for a festival than celebrating the basic ingredients of what people considered the good life — tobacco and hops.”

Beer, smokes defended
The Canberra Times
April 11, 1977