TOBACCO IN ITALY
INCREASE OF SMOKING AMONG WOMEN. Satisfactory progress is revealed b/ the most recent statistics on the tobacco monopoly. The factories have increased since the war from nineteen to twentythree. They employ over 24, M00 workpeople, of whom the greater number are women. The gross receipts for ]024-25 arc estimated at 2 ; I)UM,uUO,OUO lire, with a net. profit to tne State of 2,2U0,U0U,01J(J lire. This is an inercasa of over 100 million lire on. the tobacco revenue of 1022-23, Tobacco is cultivated in Italy od 33,5(10 hectares of land, situated chiefly in the valley of the Ik). in Tuscany, and in Campania. The total yield amounts to 2b { million kilogrammes, which is double that of four years ago. Italian tobacco is exported to many parts of the world, but its principal market is Argentina. The national consumption of tobacco, especially in 1 lie form of tho popular “ Macedonia ’* cigarettes, lias greatly increased sinca the war, owing partly to the fact that Italian women smoke much more than (hey did. The side of cigars, on tha other hand, has slightly diminished.
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Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 1
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182TOBACCO IN ITALY Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 1
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