ITALIANS AND TOBACCO
A survey published by the Italian National Institute of Statistics ranks Italy second among European producers of tobacco with an annual output of 88,184,0001b, equivalent to the nation's yearly consumption. Greece is Europe's greatest tobacco producer, with an annual growth of 100,230,0001b. In 1922 Italy imported 80 per cent, of its tobacco. Only a few thousand acres in Apulia and Abruzzo were used to grow it. Statistics now show that 82,500 acres are tilled in various regions. The principal qualities grown are Tropical Brazilian tobacco, Oriental Macedonian tobacco, and Maryland, Kentucky, Burley, and Bright. The Government holds a national monopoly on. tobacco sale with a profit of. about £32,500,000 a year. This profit is made on the production of cigarettes, cigars, 15,000,0001b of smoking tobacco, and 3,000,0001b of snuff.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 9
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132ITALIANS AND TOBACCO Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 9
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