The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-21
TOBACCO SMOKING.
Ono million Tons q Wear Goes Up In Smoke In
All the Countries OF the Globe.

All the Countries OF tho Globe.
Spain is not n wealthy country. and her 4 per
cent. bonds, guaranteed by the Government and
protected by the security Of public property and
the revenues from customs and local taxes, are
selling at so cents on the dollar. But the people
Of Spain last year land not the male inhabitants
of the Spanish peninsula exclusively smoked
1871 ,O0O, 900 worth of tobacco. an average Of
$l.s0 for each inhabitant. The total con-
sumption Of tobacco in Spain in n year
for cigarettes (which arc very POPULAR,
cigars, and snuff is twenty thousand tons,
the same quantity that is consumed in Italy, a
country with nearly twice the population Of
Spain. The Spaniards are greater smokers than
the Italians, as these figures show, and they
use. too, 1t may be added. n much better quality
Of tobacco. or more properly speaking. they use
more Of the better quality. One-third of tho
the premises, and its excellence is not such that
there is IA large foreign demand for it,.
The, consumption of tobacco in the. United
tons and in France TO 10000 tons, u disparity
which is much, greater than the difference In
population, and has been steadily growing OF
late years. At the beginning OF the present cen
fury moro tobacco was used per capita in Eng
land than in France, but gradually and steadily
the French per capita consumption has in.
creased. owing, some think, to the fact that for
more than eighty years the sale OF tobacco in
monopoly, the profits from which have gone to-
ward the reduction of taxation. and the business
of which has been greatly stimulated by legisla-
ton. An enormous quantity oftobacco. amount
ing in a year to 10, 900 tons, Is consumed in Ger
many, and the Germans. it is to be observed, arc
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 60.
Germany Is the country of pipe smokers as
the United States are, beyond all other
countries, the land OF cigar smokers.
And when the figures of foreign countries
are compared with those OF the United States,
the extent Of the American consumption may DO
Judged readily. There were collected as rev.
cnue last year by the Treasury Department
taxes on tobacco to the amount Of $50. 900. 900
$685.. 900 on snuff, and the balance, $15. $50. 600.
on smoking and chewing tobacco. The Ameri-
can product OF tobacco amounts in a year to
$50, 600 tons, or about onc-quartcr of the whole
tobacco product of the world. The exports of
American tobacco are about 10000 tons. Of
which Holland. Belgium, England, and Germany
are the chief consumers. The imports Of to-
bacco into the United States, chiefly from Cuba
and from tho Dutch possessions. amount to
49, o tons in a year. Since the beginning OF
the Cuban war the amount of tobacco imported
has decreased. Holland uses In proportion to its
population more tobacco than does any other
country In the world. the average
being 100 ounces n year for each inhabitant.
Belgium averages 80, Turkey 20. and the United
States about 60. Although the habit is no longer
SO generally diffuscd rs II once was, the United
States hold the unenviable position of being first
among the nations in the amount Of chewing
tobacco used.