The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-03
LADY NICOTINF
Costs the American People 100000, 600 Y.,-,
From the Kansas City Star

The United States spends $500. 0O0 ma
year on Lady Nlcot1ne-more than any Other y
ton in the world e nal
And the fondness for her still is on tbo -
judging from the statistics of production "'feaSe
show remarkable and in some cases nh. "Aic4
increases in the last decade. Few Other in
have made such rapid strides in the LAST ~ leS
the tobacco industry. Even the EurorH Year,
made only slight inroads on the Tobacco Eau WaS
in the last year, large cigars, manufactures
and snuff showing slight decreases over beo0aeed
1913 Other branches showed increases F"e veal
The 500, 000, 900 spent on tobacco eooh
divided as follows: year i
cigars.
Cigarettes. ..... ...... -. 49,, 7S'0o00V,OVY
Smoking and chewing tobacco. 49,. 157 0O0 Ooogg
Snun. ......... ......... ..... % 0oo' IVY
Five times as many cigarettes are now cnosoV'VV9
in the United States as compared with ton ~
teen years ago, when the tobacco trust hoo VI III
tensiVe advertising campaigns. Ten years sro ~
smoked something like 5000 900 600 niooe o w
Now we smoke more than $1,000 600 O00 " cues
Nor cigarettes taking the place of nine i" year
bacco-they simply increasing the consnmn loI
of the weed by that much. p'1Oq
In the last ten years the consumntion &c :.
cites increased $50 per cent. - NsdfI
Cigar and tobacco dealers in Kansas Citv
authority for the statement that the cigarette boh
among women here is on the increase A Isa1
trade has been built up among the women IN ~
arettes in drug stores in the resident districts \
is said. Many are said to be smoking cigarot+a !.
private. While the cigar and tobacco men saw ~ y
are NOT pushing CulS DTanCn OF the trade ~
ter of principle, the fact remains that this trad !
increasing. "uV
Although the United States spends only ona-tbi,
as much for smoking and chewing tobacco aS a..
cigars the annual expenditure amounts To &C 49, NJ
as the government appropriations for pensions IT.
increase in the production of cigars has NOT baop
rapid comparatively as the increase in oioon
cites, nor steady.
Plug tobacco is just about holding its own te
consumption having increased only O0o 00o
pounds in the last ten years. The consumpton NJ
twist tobacco increased IS per cent and fine cv
tobacco decreased ], 900, 600 pounds in ten wears
Most remarkable of all, perhaps is the enormou
increase in the production of snuff The public has
been wont to think that the snuff habit was Ions
ago extinct. However the snuff habit has caused
the production of snuff to double in the last few
years. Nearly SO, 100000 pounds of snuff was con-
sumed last year. as compared with 100000
pounds ten years ago. In 1890 only 5000 0O0
pounds of snuff manufactured
There are dull times for tobacco men Evan
when man is out of work he generally manages
to rake up few pennies for a smoke or a chew
And again, when he is not working he is more All
to indulge in tobacco to a greater extent than 4
his time is occupied with more important business
uncle Sam gets his profit from the weed too
internal revenue receipts tobacco for the fiscal
year 1915 amounted to $79986 &c.,, almost twice
the amount paid in revenue tax in 1906.