Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-08-15
NUMBER 80.
RICHMOND WHIC.
Prom the Louisviile Courier.
Tobacco.

Tobacco.
The interesting tobacco statistics on our table msri,
public attention.
The total annual European production Of tM.rA 4.
lII,S5S,o2O lbs. Total to Europe from AsisSSN
SIl, lbs. Total Europe from Africa L eaS
s4s los Total sent TO Europe from America L. li6 Oeo
oo os Total European consumption per annum il s2s-
$50 lbs IL appears from the above that Of the total
European annual consumption Of tobacco the United
states OF America after supplying home demands fur
-h aout Two hfths Europe produces litte more th.,
half OF what IL consumes; and Asia Africa the West
India Islands and South America furnish the sn,. h,l
anSe that remains, but slightly exceeding 6ftecn,h
Oi the above amount of the worlds protucop Tor an.
supply Of Europe France annually consumes At pr.ssn,
about twentyseven million pounds For rnanv wears mas,
the United States have furnished by direct or
through foreign ports from three TO four Ls or
the whole amount of exotic tobacco consumed In Fr,ne
If Algerian tobacco is ameoraed the extent anticn,
ted by sanguine friends Of that French COLONY \, IN
soon compete ormdably with American toI,ss~o. >:
the French market and in the markets Europe for II IA
said to be certain that to quantity, Algeria can supply
demands for an indefinite future.
Before 1885 American leaf tobacco cos, ,ha s,.. II
France, during period of ten years the AVERAGE re; ~
10 2 cents per pound avoirdupois Since the pauest OF
u tue average cost has fallen 09 francs or cen.
per pound. Here the average cost of our tob.cco III
expenses considered, the moment OF their n,ranc 49,
'ne Freneh factories Tor manufacture based upon the re-
sus OF the regies annual purchases from ls4b o $3.50
Maryland tobacco l2 per pou.d Virginia o. ~
cents; kentucky, I-lO cents. The obaccos imnor,.5
from Havana Tor the manufactures of France cost the reye
rom 20 IO 10 ~ l2 cents per pound French ch. mist.
give the following table showing the quantity ~ n,;
contained in the several species Of American and Fh
tobaccos: - -'s"en
"a -a".riedn "a E5aseoh-vrginia ss7 per cent Kentucky
o.oe Maryland 2.2e. Havana eco.
french IobdeeOG-Lot I .e6 per cent Lot.e. Ge,orr.
,;Si, Nord 65s, lle-eY Yilane &C. Pas de Calais o.
Bas Rhine sal. 'Ai' f'sf,
In 1929 Louis XIII finding as he SAYS in the ,..n,t,
OF MS decree that "by of its cheapnea onr nh
Jees DAILY and hourly tobacco to their nr,iudic s
he great injury OF their beaith imposed the enornou.
aA o' twenty eght cents per pound on all the weed
drought ntr the country from abroad But the evil nro
gessed IN spite OF The precautions of the King: and
We see that IN 1885 during the reign police rep.
uon IN Ears forbade upon pain of the prison and The
lash all retailers OF beer and other drinks to sell tobac
co or TO enuee persons into their shops for the Of
using the same In 1889, the consumption in France
averaged LILO ounces avoidupos for each person or
the average proportion smoked only one twelfth the
oaAGee was snuhed. In 1885, the average annual Coz,
sumption in France for each person at that time sea
gramms lS sl0 oz) of which 9l2 gramms were smoked
and lsl taken in snuff.
In 1874 the average had risen to 5ll gramms n H. O
OF OF when lss gramms used in snuff and ala
smoked AT the present the consumption Ia est
mated al about one pound 3 per annuu and per
head Tor tie thirtysix million inhabitants of France
writer In the Presse gives the following the annual
rage consumption OF tobacco per individual for the several
countries OF Europe but he does give any authority
for his statements: