Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-08-26
S. SPENDS 100000 900 IN GRAT-
IRVINE IT'S TASTE. FOR TOBACCO,

81 SPENDS 100000 900 IN Graf
E1FgING ITS TASTE. FOR TOBACCO
ThefUnited Statesa spends $700, O0O,-
900 every year onuLady Nicotine. It is
estimated more t4hn any other ma
ton IN the world.
And the fondness for her is still
on the increase, judging from the sta
fistics of production, which show re-
markable and, In some cases, phe
nomenal increases, in the last decade.
Few other industries have made sucn
rapid strides in the last ten years as
tthe 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 1912. Other branches
showed increases
The 500, 100000 spent on tobacco
each year is divided as follows:
Cigars. :. ..$446.O 00. 900
ClgafetteS. -. ,500,OOQ
Smoking and chewing. 157 100000
Snuff. 24.000,000
Five times as 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. Ten
years ago we smoked something like
) ,000,000,000 cigarettes. Now we smoke
more than 16,000,000,000 a year. Nor
are cigarettes taking the place of pipe
or tobacco-they are simply increasing
the consumption of the weed by thai
much.
In the last ten years the production
/ OF cigarettes increased $50 per cent
| Cigar and tobacco dealers at Kan
sas City are authority for the state
ment that the cigarette habit among
women here is on the increase. A
large trade has been built UP among
the women in cigarettes in drug stores
| in the residence districts, it is said,
many are said to be smoking cigar
cites in private While the cigar and
tobacco men say they are not pushing
this branch of the, trade. as matter
of principle, the fact remains that this
trade is increasing.
| Although. the United States spends
only one-third as much for smoking
and chewing tobacco as for cigars the
annual expenditure amounts to as
much as the government appropriations
for pensions. The increase in Uhe
production of cigars has not been as
rapid comparatively as the increase
in cigarettes, nor as steady
Plug tobacco is just about holding
its own, the consumption having in
creased only 100000 pounds in the
last ten years. The consumption OF
twist tobacco increased Is per cent.
and fine cut tobacco decreased LOCO.
600 pounds in ten years.
Most remarkable of all perhaps, is
the enormous increase in the produc-
ton of snuff. The public has beeis
wont to think that the snuff habit wa.
long ago extinct However, the snuff
habit has caused the production of
snuff to double in the last few years
Nearly 100000 pounds of snuff was
consumed last year, as compared wits
2O,000,000 pounds ten years ago. In
1890 only 100000 pounds of snuff was
manufactured.
There. are no dull times for tobacco
men. Even when man is out Of
work he generally manages to rake up
a few pennies for a smoke or aachew.
And again, when he is not working he
is more apt to indulge in tobacco to a
greater extent than if his time is oc-
Gupied with more important business.
And Uncle Sam gets his profit from
the weed. too. Internal revenue re
ceipts on tobacco for the fiscal year
1914 amounted to S79.986,639 almozt
twice the amount paid in revenue tax
IN l9O6.-Kansas City Star.