![]() ![]() He works out the national average spent on beer and tobacco to be £40 a year. In contrast, Orwell works out that before the war he was spending £20 a year on beer and tobacco and that he currently spends £40 per year on tobacco. Averaging the cost over his lifetime, and adding other incidental reading costs, he estimates his annual expenditure at £25. Working out that he had 442 books in his flat and an equivalent number elsewhere, he allocates a range of prices, depending on whether the books were bought new, given, provided for review purposes, borrowed or loaned. Orwell questions the idea that buying or reading a book is an expensive hobby. The essay first appeared in Tribune on February 8, 1946. ![]() He was told by factory workers that they had no interest in literature because they could not afford books. Orwell states that the essay was triggered by the experience of an editor friend who was firewatching during the Second World War. It compares the costs of reading to other forms of recreation including tobacco smoking. Cigarettes" is an essay published in 1946 by the English author George Orwell. ![]()
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