Two youths lost their lives at Abernraan, South Wales, while trying; to recover a football which had rolled , into the river. One fell into the water and was carried'- away by tho current, and drowned, and the other, rushing to his assistance, dropped unconscious on the bank and died immediately. A tlrird young man who went into tho water was brought round by artificial respiraiton. The decrease in tobacco consumption, which was attributed by Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P., on the; authority of leading tobacco manufacturers, to the cessation of juvenile cigarette-smoking under the Children .Act, is really due to the present prohibitive rate of duty, says the secretary of. the Wholesale Tobacconists' Protection Association. The decrease is, he points out, mainly., in cigars and pipe tobacco, the cigarette trade alone holding its own. : .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 793, 16 April 1910, Page 13
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133Untitled Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 793, 16 April 1910, Page 13
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