The Cigarette.
♦ The cigarette was first brought into England at the end of the Crimean War by British officers, who, for want of cigars, had been compelled to adopt the Eastern style of consuming tobacco They very quickly found that the Turkish " weed " combined excellence of- flavour with moderation in price, though the latter statement can no longer hold good — and adopted the M_f cigarette, and brought it home with ?■■ them. It at once became popular, and at the present is possibly the most fenerally used form of smoking with oth sexes.
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Manawatu Herald, 10 November 1898, Page 3
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92The Cigarette. Manawatu Herald, 10 November 1898, Page 3
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