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Show PRICE OF TURKISH CIGARETTES HIGHER New York, June 22. There was bad news for smokers of Turkish cigarettes ciga-rettes in the routine reports from the tobacco markets today. It was announced an-nounced that an advance of price of high-grade cigarettes would be forced forc-ed upon manufacturers by the Increase In-crease in the price of tohucco, Turkish Turk-ish tobacco has advanced from thirty to fifty per cent in the last year because be-cause of the failure of the crops. The shortage Is made more noticeable notice-able by the fact that tho consumption of Turkish cigarettes is Increasing rapidly in the United States. Last year seven billion two hundred million mil-lion clgarettos were sold in this coun-trv. coun-trv. as compared with less than two billion In 1994. |