THE CIGARETTE JUBILEE.
Although tobacco has been with us for over three hundred years, the cigarette—the form in whieh three-quarters of the tobacco is smoked—is only just celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its arrival in popular favour. writes a contributor to the Loudon '•NewsChronicle.'' Look up the tiles of almost any of our old English newspaper-; and you will find that towards the beginning of 1888 there i-iiddenly appeared a burst of cigarette advertising, (hie or two of the name-; are still fa-niliar. miv*t have been long forgotten. "More
-i'jpi ".-Hit r-t ill. soan-h out the national revenue fnv tliat year and you will tind that the rereinfs from tohaeco duties ro-e sliarjdy. In tin l next year there would have been another and n ".'renter rise had not (losf-hen. in his biidffPt. reduepd the duty by 4d a pound as a concession tn tin* working man. (.'ijrarettps had been known for so Ion? before that it is a little dilhvnlt to understand why the man in the street did not discover them gnich earlier. In the 'seventies and early 'eighties a eiirarette smoker was almost as much a marked man as a nudist to-day. The habit was r-o eeeentrie that most feared to imitate it.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 62, 15 March 1938, Page 6
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206THE CIGARETTE JUBILEE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 62, 15 March 1938, Page 6
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