MILLIONS OF CIGARETTES
(N.Z.E.F. Official News Service) Try to imagine two thousand, four hundred and sixty-three million., seven hundred and fifty thousand (2,463.750,000) cigarettes. Yet, this stupendous total lias been computed ns the number ol' "gaspers" of varied brands smoked by British and Allied troops in the Middle East during the course of e-ue year. Some men smoke heavily and others hardly at all, but the average has been taken as ten cigarettes a day. Of this formidable total, it has been reckoned that the tobacco eQiuvalent of 492,750.000 cigarettes are thrown away as 'Mag ends." presuming that only one-fifth of every cigarette is thus discarded. As a sensible alternative which would eliminate much of this waste, It lias been suggested that more men take up pipe smoking. It is considered that at present only one man in every ten smokes a pipel in preference to cigarettes.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 43, 22 April 1942, Page 6
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147MILLIONS OF CIGARETTES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 43, 22 April 1942, Page 6
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