Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-19
CIGAR sMoKING.
MilIiOnhires who Smoke TObies and
Cheap Clerks who Pnff Havanas.

MiiIiOnnires who Smoke TObies and
Cheap Clerks who Puff Havanas.
During the process of purchasing some
tobies and lighting one at a cigar store
nearly opposite Municipal Hall, yesterday
afternoon, says the Pittsburg Dispatch,
the proprietor became communicative,
and impaired to a reporter some facts
concerning the quality Of the weed most
smoked in Pittsburg, and what class OF
men usually smoke the best cigars.
There are more tobies smoked In Pitts
burg" said he, ethan in any city of its
size in the United States. Smokers here
smoke poorer cigars, too, than those
Of any other city"
E'Who are the best customers, or rather
who buy the best cigarsY'
''My best trade is transient; drummers
and the like. Very few people to Pitts
burg born smoke anything better than a
twO-fOT-fve cigar, although l have some
customers who purchase five and ten
centers, and few, very few, who go even
higher than that"
Business men, such as well-tO do
manufacturers and the like, are your best
customers, next to the travelling public,
are they nOt?'
mo sir. Most of these smoke tobies
anu LhO-lDl-uNG EAClucANEtNs NcAbUEA
is il the mechanic, who earns from SIS TO
$50 week. 1t is the dude clerks, on sal
aries mostly from So to SIS week. Many
fthese smoke ten-cent cigars. How can
they afford it? Well, / guess they don't
smoke more than she or two a day"
Here the conversation was interrupted
by the entrance OF a young man, stylishly
dressed. who purchased a Havana for a
dime. Following him came an ordinary
rrlra rrn1 AIox, rl.n
bought a nickePs worth of tObies.
''That young man clerks for IS a week,
and the older gentleman is worth a few
hundred thousand" said the dealer, after
they had departed.
Another curiOusIthing about most men
is that they smoke better cigars on SUM-
day than on week days." he continued.
snow, 1 often sell one hundred Decent
cigars on Sunday, and probably not as
many more of the same kind during the
balance of the week. When young man
drops his working clothes he also drops
tObies, and buys or 10-cent cigar. Then,
again, | can also tell when certain young
men are going to see their girls, for on
that evening they always purchase a
much better cigar than usual.
When asked how he knew Pittsburg
smokers were not up to those of other
cities in regard to taste, the dealer said:
cigar firm for years. 1t is almost impOs-
sible 10 get toby in the East, and in the
West nothing less than 5-cent cigars are
sold"
A we'll known revenue agent, now con-
nected with the department in this city,
but late of Chicago, where millions of
cigarettes are manufactured, was spoken
to on the subject of cigarettes.
81 used to be a confirmed cigarette
smoker, but now you could not induce me
to touch one of Them" he said.
'Why, how's thatP'
''Well, it's because | went into a large
cigarette manufacturing establishment in
Chicago on business one day, and what
saw there sickened me on the imitation
smokers. How are they made, and of
what? OF all that is vile and injurious
and mean. Cigar butts, picked up from
the street, barks of certain kinds and
tobacco stems and refuse are heaped to-
gether in one filthy pile and then satu-
rated with opium, which gives the ciga-
rette that soothing effect desirable to all
smokers. tell you, sir, if all cigarette
smokers could see, as l have seen, how
one of the greatest firms in Chicago manu-
factuTe cigarettes, the trade in the same
would soon fall off or cease entirely.o