Its editor, Ahmed Ben Chemsi, calculates from official figures on the sale of loose tobacco and rolling paper that Moroccans, who number 33m, smoke a good 1.1 billion joints a year ie, about 60 joints a year for every adult.

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California was worried about rolling over its commercial paper.

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Mondi, a papermaker, trains staff to perform several different jobs, so that if one person falls ill, the paper mill need not stop rolling.

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The world got rich by inventing cheap steel, electric lights, marine insurance, reinforced concrete, coffee shops, saw mills, newspapers, automatic looms, cheap paper, modern universities, the transistor, cheap porcelain, corporations, rolling mills, liberation for women, railways.

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