SMOKERS IN DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20846, 13 April 1931, Page 10

SMOKERS IN DUNEDIN.

CIGARETTES AND PIPES.

NO APPRECIABLE DECREASE.

"There does not appear to be any great reduction in cigarette smoking on account of the hard times," said a leading Dunedin tobacconist last week. He did point out, however, that many more smokers were acquiring the habit of buying cigarette tobacco and making their own cigarettes, which they regarded as a saving. A* slinht but noticeable increase in the saio of pipes had taken place during the last few months, especially among youths. The same tobacconist asserted that many of the smaller tobacconists and hairdressers were experiencing a trying time because of the price-cutting being indulged in by stores. He thought that the sale of tobacco and cigarettes should, bp under some form of a jicence. so that many of these stores would be debarred from selling after hours and from pricecutting. It was only the larger tobacconists who were now paying income tax. Price-cutting also had its effect upon unemployment, because of the fact that when a tobacconist's business was not paying the hairdrossing side had also to go to the wall.