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PUFFS. 



ABOUT four and a quarter billion 

 cigars were manufactured in this country 

 last year, and the government got the 

 " rake off " over twelve million dollars. 



TOBACCO in any form is good for the 

 teeth. (Please don't dispute this.) This 

 doesn't mean that it takes the place of a 

 tooth brush. That's a different propor- 

 tion altogether, as they say in Colorado. 



THE famous Vuelta Abajo district 

 will not be very much in evidence next 

 year as far as producing tobacco is con- 

 cerned. Already at this writing the '96 

 crop is only one-tenth of what it usually 

 is, and the tobacco garden of Cuba has 

 been devastated to a condition of sadness 

 which nothing except war could accom- 

 plish. 



But while this portion of the island is 

 only waiting to be permitted to breathe a 



