TOBACCO AS CHEAP AS CABBAGES.

Western Star, 4 March 1938, Page 4

TOBACCO AS CHEAP AS CABBAGES.

A delegation of Yugoslav tobacco growers from the Podgoritsa district of Montenegro recently visited the Prime Minister. While they admitted that owing to a rainy autumn the, quality of their tobacco fell short of last year’s crop, they insisted that it was anomalous that tobacco should fetch a. lower price than the commonest cabbages. Cabbages cost about Id per lb. Tobacco, which i s grown under the strict supervision of the monopoly authorities, to prevent smuggling, dcmand s the con- ' slant attention of the growers throughout the greater part of the year, and is often sold at a similar price or less. The monopoly retails il s cheapest cigarettes at over 10 times this price.