£1,000,000 CIGAR BUTTS.
London, April 17. The only point in tho Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget speech which really made a deep impression on the public mind was the statement that no loss than £1,000,000 is annually thrown into the gutters of London in the shape of cigar and cigarette ends. The Chancellor himself is a non-smoker, as he took pains to inform Parliament, but ho lias no objection to a great and increasing revenue from the tobacco tax. Now the anti-tobacco faddists are arguing that the vast waste in cigar ends is a new reason for condemning the use of cigars and cigarettes. .Most peoplo are impressed only by tho point the Chancellor -was trying to emphasise, namely, the importance of trifles.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 34
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123£1,000,000 CIGAR BUTTS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 34
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