Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-05-01
TOeACco SMOKING.
Ono Million Tons n Ycar Co Up In
smoke In Countries of the Globe.

Ono Million Tons n Year Go Up In
Smoke In Countries of the Globe.
Spain Is not wealthy country. and
her 4 per cent. bonds. guaranteed by
the Government and protected by the
security of public property and the rev.
enues from customs and local taxes,
are selling ut 80 cents on the dollar.
but the people of spain last year land
not the male Inhabitants of the Span.
ish peninsula exclusively smoked $751;.
100000 worth of tobacco. an average
Of $3.50 for each inllabitant. The total
consumption of tobacco In Spain in a
year for cigarettes (which are very
popular). cigars, and snuff Is 10000
tons, the same quantity that Is con.
sumed In Italy, n country with nearly
twice the population of Spain. The
Spanlards are greater smokers than the
Italians, as these figures show, and
they use, too, 1t may he added, much
better quality Of tobacco, or. more prop.
crly speaking, they use more of the
better quality. One.third of the to.
baccO used In Italy Is raised. so to
speak, on the premises, and its excel.
lcnce Is not such that there ~ a large
foreign demand for 1t.
The consumption of tobacco In the
United Kingdom amounts In a year
to about $4,000 tons aud In France to
10000 tons, a disparity which Is much
greater than the difference In popula.
ton, and has been steadily growing Of
late years. At the beginning of the
present century more tobacco was
used per capita In England than In
France. but gradually aud steadily the
French per capita consumption has In.
creased, owing, some think, tn the fnct
that for more than eighty years the
sale OF tobacco In any form In France
has been Government monopoly. the
profits from which have gone toward
the reduction Of taxation, and the bus.
mess of which has been greatly slim.
ulated by legislation. An enormous
quantity Of tobacco. amounting In a
year to 5000 tons, Is consumed In Ger.
many, and the Germans, It Is to be oh.
served, are rather pipe than cigarette
smokers, cut tobacco In Germany being
the chief item Of demand. Germany
raises about 40 per cent. Of the tobacco
which Its people use and imports the
other 10. Germany Is the country Of
pipe smokers as the United States are.
beyond all other countries, the land Of
| cigar smokers. Aud when the figures
Of foreign countries are compared with
those OF the United States, the extent
OF the American consumption may bc
Judged readily. There were collected
as revenue last year by the treasury
department taxes on tobacco to the
amount Of $4,000, OOO-$1?.5OO,OOO OH
cigars, S1,GOO.OOO on cigarettes. $780,.
600 on snufY, and the balance, Sl5.?5O..
900. on smoking and chewing tobacco
The American product OF tobacco
amounts In year to 100000 tons. OF
about One-Quartcr Of the whole tobacco
product Of the world. Tho exports oil
| American tobacco are about 10000
tons. OF which Holland. Belgium. En-
gland and Germany are the chief con
| suniers. The Imports Of tobacco into
the United States. chiefly from Cuba
and from the Dutch possessions
amount to $4,000 tons In year. Since
the beginning Of the Cuban war the
amount Of tobacco imported has d.
creased. Holland uses In proportion n
Its population more tobacco than does
any other country In the world. thu
average consumption being 100 ounce:
a year for each inhabltant. Belgium
averages 80. Turkey 20. and the United
States about 90. Although the habit
Is no longer so generally dlfYused rs 1!
once was. the United States hold tho
uncnviable position Of being frs,
among the nations In the amount OF
chewing tobacco uscd.--New York sun