DEARER SMOKES

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1917, Page 8

DEARER SMOKES

The wholesale prices of tobacco and cigarettes have been raised, tobacco by 4d per lb, cigarettes by Is per 1000. The advance is attributed to the heavy freights and to war risk insurance, shipping freights on cigarettes (according to information gathered locally) are now 120s, as compared with 40s before the war; and in addition the goods carry over risk insurances, ranging from £2 2s to £5 5s per cent., a charge that did not exist before the war. The last general rise in tobacco itself was in March, 1914. There has been no advance since, except in the case of one particular tobacco—an advance made in 1915. Prices of cigarettes have been unchanged during the whole war period. Manufacturers have had to meet highly increased prices for all containers made of tin, the advance in material being estimated at fully 300 per cent since the war.. A greater use of cardboard for packing goods where tin was previously thought to be indispensable will have to be resorted to for holding certain goods which are not likely to appreciably deteriorate in quality through the packing material.