29 APRIL 1966, Page 13

Smoked Out

SIR,-Leslie Adrian (April 15) might find it interestiak to ask the Tobacco Research Council this ques- . tion: 'If it is the residual sugar of the flue-etiriak peCuliar to cigarette tobacco, as smoked in Britain4 that accounts for the rapid burning of cigarettes, even when not inhaled, why is it that a personatly7„ made cigarette rolled with any proprietary cigarette.. tobacco and proprietary so-called pure rice paper, goes out if not inhaled-and this irrespective of package density?'

And then, I think, this supplementary: 'Why: when using the opaque proprietary cigarette paper, does the personally-made cigarette invariably keep. on burning?'

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