TOBACCO LEAVES 

 " EGYPTIAN " TOBACCO 



PROBABLY few smokers of Egyptian 

 cigarettes trouble themselves greatly where 

 the tobacco they enjoy comes from, and 

 if asked, would answer, " Egypt, of 

 course." As a matter of fact, however, 

 practically no tobacco is grown in Egypt, 

 for the soil is too sandy; every bit of it 

 comes from Turkey, though the manufac- 

 ture of the best qualities of leaf tobacco 

 into cigarettes, both for foreign and for 

 Turkish consumption, is carried on almost 

 exclusively in Egypt, and the paper is 

 made in the same country. Of late years, 

 the consumption of Turkish cigarettes in 

 America has grown enormously, and mil- 

 lions are now manufactured here where 

 there were thousands a few years ago. 

 The cheaper grades are mixed with native- 

 grown tobacco; a better grade is made 

 exclusively from one variety of Turkish 



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