Britain's smokers, up against the almost prohibitive price of tobacco (TIME, April 28), clutched at any straw in the hope that it would be puffable.
Last week there was a run on herb stores for a smoking mixture (coltsfoot and clover leaf, scented with lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco.
Tobacco sales were down to about...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
