THIRTY MILLIONS GONE IN SMOKE.
BRITAIN'S HUGE TOBACCO BILL IN i9i2. Last year of the British nation's money went in smoke. This calculation is one of many, equally interesting, made by 'Mr. K. P. Moncrief, of Newcastle-on-Tync, on behalf of the British Anti-Tobacco and Anti-Narcotic Loague. The total represents 90,754,3511b. of tobacco/ and includes .£2,212,708 spent on pipes, matches, aud tobacconists' sundries. Apart from the raw tobacco made up in British factories—.£2G,Bß2,6B7 worth —the largest item is £1,803,057 spent on 6igurs. The consumption of tobacco per bead of tlio estimated population of the British Isles was 2.118 pounds, or, according to tho ristfonal averages 9.5311b.' per family, at a cost £2 18s. 9d. to each family per annum. The nation's tobacco bill is the highest yet recorded, being nearly £i,000,000 more than in 1907.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 6
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134THIRTY MILLIONS GONE IN SMOKE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 6
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