Excerpt from The Tobacco Situation Cigarette output at h02 billion in l95h was 7 percent lower than in 1953 and nearly 0 percent below the record 1952 level. Domestic con sumption, as indicated by tax-paid removals, accounted for almost 92 per cent of the output. The remaining 8 percent was in the tax-free cate gory which went mainly to overseas forces and as commercial exports to foreign countries. The 195h domestic consumption at 369 billion was 5-7 percent lower than in 1953 and the tax-free category at 33 billion declined percent. Private estimates indicate that over 28 percent of the domestically consumed cigarettes were king size, non-filter tips an increase of AS percent since 1952. Also, these estimates indicated that filter tip cigarettes (both regular and king size) accounted for about 10 percent of the total domestic consumption-about seven times as many as in 1952. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.