ECONOMY IN CIGARETTE SMOKING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue I, 4 July 1896, Page 27

ECONOMY IN CIGARETTE SMOKING.

I observe (says a correspondent) the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated in his Budget speech that about'a million pounds were lost annually to this country owing to the ends of cigars and cigarettes being thrown away. This need nob be the case as far as cigarettes are concerned, because the ends of the smoked-out ones can easily be fastened by means of an inch or so of postage stamp paper on to the ends of fresh ones, and the whole afterwards smoked as if it were one cigarette.

This method of smoking cigarettes has also the great advantage of keeping the tips of one’s fingers from being stained with the juice of the tobacco, as the cigarettes need not be smoked so close to the end when they are to be fastened to fresh ones with postage stamp paper. Smokers should ever keep in view the fact that by throwing away the ends of their cigarettes they are really throwing away one cigarette out of every three they smoke. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also pointed out that the consumption of tobacco in the form of cigarettes was increasing enormously in this country. That being so, it seems to me that cigarette smokers are standing in their own ' light ’ if they do nob use up their ends, especially seeing it can be done with so little trouble, and ata no expense whatever, the Government, in fact, bearing the expense by giving the postage stamp paper gratis.