The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-28
THE CIGARETTE CROP.
manufacturers Turn Out Bbout Two Hun
dred Every Year for Each Adult Male.


Manufacturers Turn Out Bbout Two HUI
dred Every Year for Each Adult Male.
From the New York Sun.
About the only fabulous figures" Cor
figures thought to be fabulous by
many of American products of manu-
facture used to be those of the corn
crop of the United States, exceeding
], 900, 600 900 bushels a year. and touch
ing in 1891 the enormous figure of 2O6O-
100000 But this mammoth figures of
the production of corn in the United
States are wholly eclipsed by the fig
ures or cigarette manufacture, the to-
tai number of cigarettes made in this
country last year being 1920, O00, OOO
The total number of male persons in
the United States between the ages of
Is and "A was returned by the last CEN
sus as 13,260,000; but adding those above
A years of age and making allowances
for the increase in population since
1890, 1t is safe to say that there are 49,
100000 men and boys of Cigarette
smoking" age in the United States, and
this would give an average of 200 Gig
arettes for each man and boy in the
republic every year, provided, of
course, that cigarette smoking was gen.
eral instead of being, as it is, restricted
to very small fraction of the whole
population, mostly in the cities and
large towns.
An average of 200 cigarettes apiece
year for the whole male population of
the country above the age of Is gives
a fair idea not only of the consumption
of cigarettes, which is now almost sta
tionary in volume, but also of the man
ufacture of cigarettes, which is prac-
tically limited to three states. At the
head of all others comes New York,
which manufactures in year Just
about one-half of all the cigarettes con-
sumed, 1,S00, 000, 600. Then comes Vir-
ginia, with a record last year of $685.
000,0 900. and third, North Carolina Gun
comfortably near the foot in other mat
tiers of manufacturer, with 740, 900, 900.
These three states may be said to mo-
nopolize the cigarette-making business,
for after them come, quite a distance
behind, Louisiana, with $50, 000, 000 and
Maryland with 36,000,000. New York
state enjoys the distinction not only of
making, but of smoking, more cigar
cites than any other state in the Union,
whereas ii can be said in extenuation
of North Carolina and Virginia that
they make cigarettes for consumption
elsewhere, not for home use. The con-
sumption of tobacco for cigarette MAX
ing, though well-defined popular
prejudice rejects the idea of any to-
bacco being used i'm cigarettes, is 49,
000,0 900 pounds year. and of this $780,
900 pounds are used by the New York
cigarette factories, 1900, 900 pounds by
the Virginia factories and 2,500,000 by
the North Carolina factories BY far
the largest part of the North Carolina
tobacco crop goes for cigarettes. This
is not true of any state except Vir-
ginia.
The number of cigars manufactured
in the United States last year, includ-
ing, of course, those said to be i'm
ported" was 400. 100, 000 and at the head
of all the states in the manufacture Of
these was Pennsylvania, New York
coming second, Ohio third, Illinois
fourth and Florida (Key WesD fifth.
1t is encouraging for New Workers to
know that, although Pennsylvania
made more cigars than this state, New
York used more tobacco in hers. Ken
lucky raises an enormous amount of
tobacco, but does not use very much
of it for manufacturing purposes, Ken
lucky tobacco being sent to other
states The Kentucky tobacco crop
last yea was 100, 5000 pounds. of
which less than 100000 pounds were
manufactured in the state. Connecti-
cut, too, raises much tobacco and man
ufactures little. Eighteen pounds of to-
bacco are required for 1000 cigars and
three and one-half pounds of tobacco
for l. 600 cigarettes.