The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-15
s700,000,00O SPENT
on TOBACCO IN YEAR
MANY CIGARETTES SMOKED
Use OF Weed In That Form More Tnan
QuinsupIed In Last Decade-Uncie
Sam Gets Good Profit from weed
Through Internal Revenue.

The United States spends 100000
900 every year on tobacco 1t s esti-
nated--nore than any other nation
IN the world. says the Southern TO-
bacco Journal.
And the fondness for II is still on
the increase, juding from the statistics
Of duotion, which show remarkable
and. in some cases. phenomenal IN
cpeasea. in the last decade. Few
other industries have made such rapid
strides in the last ten years as the
tobacco industry. Even the Euro
pean war made only slight inroads on
the Tobacco business IN the last year.
large cigars, manufactured tobacco
and snuff showing slight decreases
over the year 1919. Other branches
showed increases.
The s7oo, 900, 900 spent on tobacco
each year liz divided as follows:
Cigars ............... s44o'ooo'o00V"
Cigarettes ..-'' 'S'''"'"SN
Smoking and chewing TO- oon
bacco ........ lo1.ooVvvV
0" FIVE times az many cigarettes are
now consumed in the United States
as compared with ten or fifteen years
ago. when the tobacco trust began ex-
tensive advertising campaigns len
wears ago we smoked something ike
5000. 900, 900 cigarettes. Now we
smoke more than 16.ooo,0oO.o 600 q
year. Nor are cigarettes taking the
place of pipe or tobacoo-they are
simply increasing the consumption OF
the weed b ythat much.
In the last ten years the production
OF cigarettes increased 4eo per cent
Cigars ana tobacco dealers In Kan
sas are authority for the statement
that the cigarette habit among women
there in on the increase. A large
trade has been built up among the
women in cigarettes In drug stores
In the resident districts, 1t is aid. Many
are said to be smoking cigarettes Tin
private. While the cigar and to-
bacco men say they are not pushing
this branch tof the trade. as q matter
of principle. the fact remains that
this trade liz increasing.
Although the United States spends
only one-third as much for smoking
and chewing tobacco as for cigars
the annual expenditure amounts TO
a. much as the Government appro-
priations for pensions The Increase
In the production OF cigars has not
been as rapid comparatively as the
increase In cigaretts, nor as steady.
Plug tobacco is just about hold
ing It's own, the consumption having
increased only I.ooo.000 pounds In
the last ten years. The consumption
ow twist tobacco increased rs per
cent and ftne-cut tobacco decreased
! ,o0o, 900 pounds in ten years.
Most remarkable of all. perhaps. u
the enormous increase In the produce
ton of SNUFF. The public has been
wont TO think that the SNUFF habit
was diminishing. However, the snuff
habit has caused the production OF
snuff TO double In the last few years.
Nearly IS. 600. 600 pounds OF snuff was
consumed last year. as compared with
20, 900, 900 pounds TEN years ago. In
1890 only 100000 pounds of SNUFF
was manufactured.
There are no dull times for to-
hacco Snsnos sa Exefs. whom o. r1apas ts owe
Of he manages to rake UP few PEN
nies fer a smoke or chew. And
again, when ne IL not working he liz
more apt to indulge In tobacco to q
greater extent thatn IL his time 10 oc-
|, cupied with more important bust
mesa
And Uncle Sam gets his profits from
the weed. too. Internal revenue
receipts on tobacco for the fiscal year
1914 amounted ITO s7s.aSs.S3s, almost
twice the amount paid In revenue tax
In 1905