The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-17
Thousands of Cigars Sold Every
Time the Old Clock
Ticks.
BILLIONS OF CIGARETTES
ARE TURNED OUT ANNUALLY
TrainiOads of Matches Neces-
sary for Smokers; Millions of
Cans of Snuff Used.

Crank, give me a lighter colored
one. please. These wrappers are too
dark, the filing may be light, but l
don t like these black cigars. Look
too strong. Make me think m nervous
after smoking There, that S the kind.
All, old man. addressing The Stroller,
who just stepped in, ''have smoke
with me7 What Don I smoke? Why,
/ always labored under the delusion
that newspaper men had all the vices.
Oh, well, take something, anyhow, Give
them the best over there, Jimmy-that
1884 distillation. Must be good, the
way you smack your lips. Of the
searchin kind, eh, my boyl
Yes, Tom, hand over that box of
black boys. Give this old sinner ad-
dressing n third party who had entered
the place, lone of them. Nothing ap-
pears to have any effect upon him -
Then they lighted the fragrant weeds
and the gentleman who made the pnr
chase said; "Queer thing, this weed
is. 1t IS a comfort and a solace at all
times. Beats booze, and yet you never
saw a man who used both tobacco and
booze that ever quit the use of both.
He may quit one, but never both.
Tobacco Belongs TO America
Tobacco, you know, was first
tions on the discovery of America,
where il was found in use by the ma
tives. 1t IS tonic, a stimulant,
sedative. 1t calms the nerves, relieves
hunger, likewise pain, has no direct
the stomach without injurious results
and in its general properties it is
poison. When sweated il contains 1x14
per cent nicotine. but then everybody
knows what the analysis of tobacco is.
Yesterday | was talking 10 a to-
bacconist, having just stood him off
for smoke, as pay day only comes
once a week. Said he; Why do you
smoke those cheap two-fors7 Take one
of these. Try them. Smoke a real cigar
for once. 1t was an imported cigar
he gave me, cost $3.50 per thousand, is
known as the Romeo and Juliet, and
came from the West Indies. All first
class hotels and tobacconlsts in Salt
Lake sell them at 40 cents per, or three
for ST. Well, perhaps my faster was
out of fix, but | prefer the cheaper
kind. Better smoke for me.
Now as to the consumption of to-
bacco. II is something enormous. You
hear that clock on the wall there tick.
Well, every time that clock ticks dur
ing every twenty-four hours 204l cigars
are sold, Startling figures! Well,
should say. But here s something
greater. To light those cigars there
was used in the way of matches
3,974,000 pounds of wood, $4,000 pounds
of sulphur or 20,s64 ,392 boxes of match
es or, to carry it further. 100 carloads
of matches OF course it is astonishing.
''The other day in glancing over a
Milwaukee paper found an article con-
tanning statistics regarding the con
sumption of cigars in the United States
last year. Here is what it says:
There wers 7,99S.s79. 7S5 cigars Of all
kinds smoked in the United States last
year. They cost all prices, from the
for a quarter that the wealthy use, but
the average that is smoked is the o-cent
cigar If all the cigars consumed during
the year were laid from end TO end they
would reach distance OF 631, 226 miles.
they would circle the earth at the equator
twenty-five times, and. If laid from Wash
ington 10 San Francisco they would mako
q pathway seventeen and one-half feet
wide. II they were laid In pile 100 feet
square, they would reach q height OF Ave
and one-third miles and would weigh 61v.
900 tons The ashes would weigh POSE
tons. If they were all made by hand It
would require 3,ls9,359 cigarmakers to
make them. and all the smokers would
have 10 smoke three cigars each day In
the year 70 consume them.
II a cigar given to each man and
they stood side by side they would circle
the earth 1912 times. making n ring of
smoke one mile wide around the world.
and II each man was required TO dig one
day In the Panama canal. u would take
Just three weeks to finish it III they
stood on each others shoulders the top
man could talk 10 the man In the moon,
throw o kiss at Venus. flrt with the
maids on Mars and examine the rings Of
Saturn.
AZ fifty cigars TO box It required l5s,-
97Ls76 boxes. which consisted OF S5.574,-
f52 square feet Of lumber that would
take A train Of 46i0 cars to carry II and
would extend distance OF flfty-thr
miles. II would talle sixty Of the largest
locomotives 10 haul the train.
II the boxes were laid end TO end they
exposition TO London. England, 8 feet 4
inches wide. And If laid from Washing
ton 20 the north pole, Lieut.. Peary would
have board walk OF boxes feet / inch
TOP of the pole They would make fence
completely around the United States. and
there would be enough left 10 circle the
DlstTle1 ! s6Tls, o. Columbia They would build
er than the Eifel tower at Paris
AZ o cents each the cost would he sSo9-
9+iSb.20. which is s15.45 for every man
or $t62 for every man woman and child
in the United States Every time the
clock tlcks there is Sl2 spent for cigars
in the United States. If the money was
dIvloed among the States, each would get
SS,SS7664. and II would give 1 800 men
IN each state SIS per week for one wear
The money would educate I5o97To stu
dents ar Vale college. II would build ffty
n,ckels II would weigh l0.41A tors. If II
were in 81 bills the President could walk
on path oi dollars feet Wide 10 the
Panapl0 canal
The money would sunnorf 11e son r,r,
iies OF I'VE comfortably. and give then,
az lhe clotneS that was needed besides