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Show Britain Growing Tobacco As a matter of civic pride and in the interest of industrial development, Great Britain is making strenuous effort ef-fort to grow tobacco on a commercial scale and to inculcate into the British inhabitants a taste for the local weed. Great Britain, since the day when Sir Walter Raleigh introduced smoking, smok-ing, lias been getting her tobacco mainly from Havana, Jamaica, Nigeria and Virginia plantations. In fact, Great Britain once got finer leaf than did any American cigar makers. |