Show TIlE qUESTION Friends of the bill to prohibIt the sale of cigarettes to minor which has knocked as yet at the doors of the ew York legislature may find some solace in the report or January in the two great dIstrIcts of the etty of New York It shows a falling otT of more than 25 per cent in the ture of paper cigarettes as compared with the same months last It many moan that the consumption tit cigarette has decreased or that there has been an oversupply which has manufacture to be temporarily restricted It is mattir of common observation that within a year or two cIgarettes with an admixture of or Egyptian tobacco have comae to be smoked in this country much more than formerly in preference to cigarettes made solely of American to tobacco bacco That shifting of the taste may for the tailing oft the report shows many Turk TurkIsh Ish and Egyptian cigarettes are doubt tess made in New York the are stronger titan the American cigarettes with the best intentions the smoker cannot consume o many of them The foreign cigarettes too being deadlier and inure insidious than our own probably Induce more frequent Periods of remorse and abstinence in who use Weekly |