Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-10-11


Austria boasts Of 100000 people
as its population, ami between them
they manage to get through a little
over a hundred and eight million
pounds of tobacco year, Each Aus
trian, therefore, would be able to have
two pounds ten ounces of tobacco to
last him a year if all the inhabitants
smoked.
In France, however, where the con-
sumption of tobacco is mostly in the
form of very bad cigarettes, each in
habitant could smoke only two pounds
two ounces of tobacco. Judging from
the quality of the French TOBACCO, we
wonder how they can smoke even that
amount. Taking the population of
France at 3S,51S 900, the amount of
the villainous weed consumed in the
year can easily be deduced.
With greater inducements, in the
shape of better and cheaper tobacco,
the inhabitants of England smoke
more tobacco per man than their near
neighbors, the French. If we take
the last census we find that the peo-
pie of England number about $4,000
000 and, allowing for the yearly in
! crease, they now certainly number a
| good many more. If all of these
| smoked the amount of tobacco doled
out to each on the LIST of January to
last for the year would only amount
to one pound five ounces. This is
about what a heavy smoker would
consume in a month.
Taking, however, the approximate
number of adult males in the king
| dom at 9,750,000, we get an average Of
IA ounces per man, which is about
what the average smoker gets
| through. Yet we are not a nation
much addicted to tobacco. For really
colossal smokers you must go to Bel.
GUM and Holland. The population Of
| Belgium is a little larger than the
population of London, being about 6,
| 100000. One would think from the
returns that the Belgian infants were
reared on tobacco. If we consider
every soul in Belgium as a smoker we
get the astounding average of eighty.
seven ounces per soul each year.
When, however, we reduce the popu-
latiOn to the probable census of males
of an age to smoke, we get an aver
age amount of twenty-five and one-half
pounds a year per man, or a weekly
consumption of seven and one-half
ounces. Holland, with its 5,075,000
inhabitants, comes second in the
smoking world
There is, however, some excuse for
the Dutch smoking so much, for their
tobacco is very mild and of a pleasant
flavor. Nevertheless a yearly average
of seventy ounces per man must be
considered abnormal, and the English
anti-tobacconist has every reason to
rejoice that he does not live under
Queen Wilhelmtna.
What do all these people smoke?
Well putting it roughly the consump-
ton of tobacco in France is chiefly in
the shape of cigarettes and cigars.
In Russia the cigarette is also, unfor-
tunately, too popular. No one in Hol-
land or Belgium would thank you for
the paper-Covered cartridge which the
British soldier designates as two
puffs and a spit" The pipe predolni-
mates in Germany, Holland and Bel
GUM. Austria and England are i'm
partial. The cigarette appeals to
some, the cigar to the wealthy and the
pipe maintains its popularity. During
the last six years the consumption Of
cigarettes has almost doubled, and
this is not good for the nation at large,
though it may be for the revenue and
the cconists.-London Express