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Show I TOBACCO COMBINE THREATENS CUBANS HAVANA, Cuba, April 14 Reports that a Mg tobacco combine in the United States will retalllate If Cuba still further Increases the Import duty on American cigarettes, a move which Is being actively championed, has led to publication by I-a DUcusion, one of the papers Interested in the subject, of a suggestion that the importation of American cigarettes be absolutely prohibited, pro-hibited, on sanitary grounds. The present duties bring the cost of an ordinary 20 -cent package of cig-aretfes cig-aretfes to 60 cents In Cuba, and the paper declares that Increased duties will only result in Increased smuggling, smug-gling, at present carried on extensively. |