BRITAIN'S SMOKE.
Position of Tobacco Trade Revealed. EMPIRE PRODUCERS' RISE. British Official Wireless. (Received 11 a.m.) RUGBY, November 28. The Imperial Economic Committee reports that the amount of tobacco smoked in Britain is increasing, al*o that there is a marked tendency for cigarettes to displace pipes. The report states that sales of Empire ..tobacco are increasing, and that the quality of Empire tobacco has improved greatly of late years. In the past ten years the consumption of Empire leaf increased at the rate of 2,000,0001b per annum. It is now over 23 per cent of the total. Improvements in type, production and marketing, especially of leaf coming from Canada, India and Southern Rhodesia, have resulted in much of that leaf now being suitable for the cigarette trade of the United Kingdom.
In 1935 this country, which was the world's largest importer of leaf, took .V 2 per cent of the exports from the United States and 60 per cent of the total ex{>orts of leaf from Empire countries.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 7
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