TOBACCO CONSUMPTION
CIG ARETTES ’ P O P U L A RIT Y.
(United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, August 9. Owing to the extension of the cig; arette habit, particularly among women, the consumption of tobacco, which was 2.4 pounds per capita in 1914, rose to 3.4 pounds per head in Great Britain last year. The consumption in 1907 was divided as follows:—71 per cent, by pipes 23.8 per cent, by cigarettes, and 5.2 per cent, by cigars. In 1924, however, the figures were: —Pipes 40 per cent, cigarettes 58.5 per cent., cigars 1.5 per cent. The supplies of Empire leaf increased from 3.3 per cent., the total used in 1921, to 18.4 per cent. last, year, this increase being mostly pipe tobacco. The world’s production of tobacco in 1926 was 4900 million pounds.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1928, Page 7
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