THE CIGARETTE AGE
PIPE-SMOKING DECLINES
There is a remarkable decline in the popularity of pipe smoking, and devotees of the weed are showing a decided preference for cigarettes, Wellington tobacconits told a “Dominion" representative yesterday. They said that very few pipes were being sold now, and prices were being reduced in order to get rid of them. Whereas tobacconists had ordered pipes by the gross formerly, now they ordered them in dozens, because the demand for them was very small. The consumption of cigarettes, on the other hand, had increased by 75 per cent.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 12
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94THE CIGARETTE AGE Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 12
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