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TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



Metropolitana. In 1823, 20 lbs. only of manufactured 

 cigars were imported; the duties were then reduced, 

 and the return for 1821 showed 15,380 lbs., sinking 

 the next year to 9569 lbs., but steadily increasing till 

 1830, when they reached 253,882 lbs., and have now 

 vastly increased. In 1830 the duty was reduced to 

 nine shillings a pound. Cigars were quite an aris- 

 tocratic luxury then; but the taste for them has 

 so greatly increased, that fully half the quantity of 

 tobacco smoked in our large towns is in the form of 

 cigars. The best kinds come from Havanna, though 

 the Cuban are much valued when old. The large 

 variety of cigars now traded in may be understood by 

 the subsequent list, published by an importer and 

 manufacturer in the city of London : — 



