MILLIONS OF CIGARETTES
MIDDLE EAST TROOPS’ LARGE CONSUMPTION.'
(N.Z.EIF. 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 has been computed as the number of “gaspers” of varied brands smoked by British and Allied troops in the Middle East during the course of one year. Some men smoke heavily and others hardly at all, but 'the average has been taken as ten cigarettes a smoker a day; Of this formidable total, it has been reckoned that the. tobacco equivalent of 492,750,000 cigarettes are thrown away as “fag ends,” presuming that only one-fifth of every cigarette is thus discarded.
As a sensible alternative which would eliminate much of this waste, it has been suggested that more men take up pipe-smoking. It is considered that at present only one.man in eyery ten smokes a pipe in preference to cigarettes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1942, Page 4
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