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CIGARETTES AND FROCKS LONDON. October IS. Coloured cigarettes matching the women’s dresses are the latest vogue, leading to the introduction of red, pink, yellow, blue, green, and black cigarettes, coloured with non-injurious vegetable dyes, of the same hue as the ■ costumes. The pipe-making industry in France is seriously depressed owing to a 50 per cent, decrease in the past three years in England’s demand for pipes. The demand for tobacco has decreased 20 per cent., whereas the demand for cigars has increased 50 per cent, in nine years . . Britain consumes more cigarettes per head than the United States. Tobacconists consider that the rush and bustle of modern life is responsible for the favouring .of cigarettes, compared ad& pipe*.
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Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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120TO MATCH Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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