The National Cigarette.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue I, 5 July 1902, Page 4

The National Cigarette.

There is a fight royal going on for the British cigarette, and the parties are the United States and Britain.

The pipe seems to take a back seat to-day, so. in considering the national consumption of toßacco at Home, we will suppose that it forms one gigantic cigarette.

The national cigarette has grown enormously since 1841, as the diagram shows. In 1841 our fathers were con-

tent with a 13|oz cigarette a year. The sons require 21bs OJoz to the

cigarette of 1901. This figure is arrived at by dividing the total amount of tobacco consumed among the whole population But if non-smokers are omitted, the smokers will be found lo consume about 81bs per head. In 1841 there were -26,700,0(10 people in the United Kingdom, and 23.096,2811bs of tobacco was consumed. This gave a cigarette of 135 ounces each. In 1891 we numbered 37,740,000 people; the national cigarette now therefore is more than double the size of the cigarette of 1841.