Show match production in brazil the number of boxes of matches produced in the federal district of rio do de janeiro brazil in 1907 was of which were wood and wax matches the stamp revenue wai 12 or ar about I 1 six tenths of a cent a box the Is ia used in the district itself the match tax alone amounts to a little over for each man woman and child the explanation for this exceedingly cee large consumption of matches is in the fact that almost every male inhabitant of tho the district wa Is a smoker and most of thern them smoke cigarettes |