I mentioned recently the revival] of pipe-smoking. Otservation is confirmed by the secretary of one fof the big tobacco companies commenting: on sales of cigarettes, the growth of which last slight falling off as compared with the year before.
'But how enormous is the consumption of tobacco, The revert of the Commissioners of Custor's and Excise for the year ending March] 'B1 last which has ju deen issued, Btiows that nearly' derived from tobacco taxes was 42,800,000 more than Budget estimate and £3,700,090 more than the year before, "All the tobacco experts attribute this to the Popularity of cigarettes and the increasing number of women who} smoke.
'Apropos of vipes: in the window of a well-known maker (not, by the way, the name that will jump' to every mind) I saw a display of Wetraight grain" pipes with vulcanite ferns at two guineas apiece. Pipes!
bit as handsome could have been bought for 7/6 or half-a-guinea 25 yrs ago, and that world have been deemed an extravagance. The thought of two guineas for a pipe almost makes one as ill as if one Were pipe-smoking for the first time. Who can wonder at Br, Mfaxton's outbursts?
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