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Show CIGARETTES ARE TO COST MORE Now, York", Jcne 30. Smokers v begin tomorrow to feel the effect of the new internal revenue law, which becomes operative at midnight tonight. to-night. The law affects smoking tobacco to-bacco and clgaretUa directly. According to . announcements by manufacturers here, cigarette boxes in most of tho popular brands will be ro-duced ro-duced In size, boWlng olcht instead of ten cigarettes hereafter. The us of tho fractional "third"' In measuring ounces of smoking tobacco Is to he supplanted by "fourths." Hereafter the poach wWch has contained con-tained one ounco and one-third will contain one ounce and one-fourth, but vill retail for tho old price. In tho case of cigarettes thai nro packed twenty in a bor. the new ruling rul-ing will reduce the capacity of tha box to sixteen cigarette. |