MILLIONS OF CIGARETTES.

Grey River Argus, 1 May 1942, Page 4

MILLIONS OF CIGARETTES.

(N.Z.E.F. Official News Service). CAIRO, February 20. Try to imagine two billion four hmidned; land 'sixty-three million, seven hundred and fifty thousand (2,463.750,000) cigarettes. Ye, this stupendous total has been computed as the number of “gaspers” of varied brands smoked by British ana ALlied troops in the Middle East ouring the course of one year. Some men smoke heavily and others hardly at all, but the average has been taken as ten cigarettes a smoker a dt Qf this formidable total, it has been reckoned that the tobacco equivalent of 492,750,000 cigarettes are thrown away as “fag ends”, presuming that only one-fifth of every cigarette is thus discarded. , | As a sensible alternative ! which would eliminate much of this waste, it has been suggested that more men take up pipe-smoking. It is considered that at present only one man in every ten smokes a pipe in preference to cigarettes.