The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03
CIGARETTE TAKING
 HOLD OF GERMAN No Longer Devoted to Pipe
 or Cigar ORDER BY THOUSANDS
Advertisement of Cigarettes Is One of the Features of Landscape-Over 10000 Million Smoked An
 nually-620 Per Capita
From the London Standard.

From the London Standard.
 l Some 50 years ago an English traveller in Germany remarked that smoking ap- peared to be one of the principal occupa- tons of the population, and Lord Dudley also referred to it as "a most important branch of the business of life of almost every German of condition" This habit or Occupation has by no means disap- peared. and any stranger entering the country cannot help being struck by the important part that the cigar plays in the daily life of the community.
 There are probably more tobacco and cigar stores In the larger towns than shops of any other kind; the cigar dealer barber, and discusses the weather, sells stamps. and gives leave to use his tele- phone; in every cafe and restaurant the boy with the cigars makes his periodic round and sells his stock to customers at what is practically shop prices Gin strong contrast with the practice in other coun- tries that one could mention), and there Is scarcely house in Berlin but receives one or two illustrated prospectuses a day giving all particulars and even pictures oi the latest issues of cigars by such and such dealer--for in Germany new brands of cigars are almost as much of an event as the publication of a special edition of a newspaper.
 In the country the pipe still lives on, and the pot-bowled, long-shanked pipe with curled mcuthHece and tassels is part of every Bayarian peasants costume. Dur ing the last few years, however, the pipe and cigar have found a formidable rival
 in the cigarette The national smoke of so many other European countries for some reason or other was only seldom seen smoked in Germany. Some suggest that it was thought too transitory pleasure for the German temperament and that the appeal of the cigarette has grown as the modern German has been seized with the modern desire for speed but possibly the intricacies of the GUS toms regulations had more to do with it.
 At all events, the advertisement of cigarettes is' now enc of the features of both the newspapers and the landscapes seen from the railway carriage windows. Ore niav lea rn much hv studving them from the names of ancient Asiatic mon arcns and those of modern European no- blity to the originators of Persian liter ature and the popular idols of the oper- attic world. It is no uncommon thing to see a man enter the store of dealer in Russian cigarettes and buy 800 or 106 al q time, ana IT only lO cigarettes were sold day of the thousand and one different brands that almost every shop stocks Russian, Turkish, Austrian, French. Egyptian. American. English, and others with or without gold. cork, cardboard, or straw mouthpieces. some with coats-of arms or other decorations, and some again with an automatic self-lighting appliance --it would be much as one could reason ably expect even of the hardest smoking people in the world, though truly it wouls 10 be quite ade tate compensation fo~ the brilliant inventive powers of their producers or for the skill of the adyer- tisement designers and the get-up of the boxes.
 No young dandy of Berlin Hamburg Munich, or any other large town is with out his cigarette case. and in the more modern cafe (which is modelled on the Viennese style and is another of the in novations of latter day Berin.' which | due to the youth of the day) the cigaretta is quite predominant. Moreover. with tha modern habit of smoking by women, the cigarette has been given another market One carrot he surnrised. therefore the the output has increased with great rapid .1r tftrng tse last few years. though on -~terf nf Grst sight be inclined f. doubt whether 1t is always a paying ir
 tss te'istics lust published hov ever. show that there is little cause z. such skepticism Indeed. one of the last ii denos of oae of the larger firms en tirely restricted to the manufacture of