The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-05-27
MANY INDUSTRIES
TIED TO TOBACCO!
Prohibition of Weed Would Near
Big Financial Loss to
Allied Trades.
WHO USES THE MATCH7
This Smoker Mainiy--AIso Responsible
forspendIno ,Hsndrsds Of MIIlIoasz
Annually ter LIc9riee, SUGAR,
Coal, cigar Boxes, Tin
FoIt Etc
r BY GARRETT SMITH

Ii HOW THdly' fkluleS u udy Is LHdt QueS-
ton asked in these United States
How many more times is the question
UNNECESSARY because most pockets are
4 kept well supplied with the useful
1 lfttler articfe2 Anyhow, inasmuch as 1t
4 is estpated that there are 10000, 900
/ tobacco Users IN The country, we would
guess that The answer to that question
would run into the hundreds Of mil
lions. ] 9 rE
! Epr II til weren't for the smokers In
these days of electric lights how many
matches would be usedf A pretty
small proportion, Of, the number, of
these "stfcks OF fbiakes'l produced In
the country every year. Abolish to
haenoahd the snatch business would be
shot to pieces. iIe.
But the match business is only. one
OF a dozen or more allied industries
which derive large revenues directly or
indirectly from the tobacco trade and
would sifrer heavily If national pro-
hihttin of tobacco were to 90 int
effect, as some Of our reformers would
have it. The annual sales Of tobacco
products based on retail prices, is es-
tlmated at Sf,e3T,D 100000 OF the cost
of producing and selling this quantity
OF cigars. cigarettes and other forms
Of the weed, some hundreds OF million
dollars liars, are paid out for other things
than the raw tobacco and labor Of
making # np. ~ W @o' -
'maas2s,p6d.6oo !, Year Tor s9xes
For example, tfe tobacco trade con.
sdhes TeadiItff ysaf 100000 pounds of
llcorice, 100000 pounds Of sugar,
bgthh used fAna ffaforing tobacco; end
$50, 600 4ons Of coal. 1t is estimated
that 0the valued of5wooden cigar boxes
used2is f$2J00d,00O a year, quite an
itemo too the lumber business and to
manYfa etuTfrso of the boxes.
IN making these boxes $50, 900
p6unds Of halls are employed Other
large items used in making and pre-
| parihg 9obacc9 for sale are tim and
lead0foil papee for bags and cigarette
wrappefs, 6loth for tobacco bags, la
bells, coupons, etc. Involving the print
lag trade extensively.
Then building contractors and manu-
facttfers Of machinery are largely In
terestedi! Investments in plants and
| machinery employed In manufacture
! ing tobacco are estimated at $102, 000,-
coo Replacement, up-keep and inter-
est on the investment make no small
spm ANNUALLY.
n And let realty men note there are
approximately = $4,000 tobacco farms
III the country, with total estimated
1 Valuation Of $3.50, 100000. OF further In.
tsrest to real estate men is the fact
thatdtheFs aFe970O,0O0 retail establish
| ments selling tobacco, involving total
rental and ,rpskeep, impossible. to, est.
mate, besides the large amount Of Of
fee space occupied BY administrative
branches 81 the General business
The insurance meh,j TOO, have theil
share 16f the pieRIngs{ The tobacco
bdshessiGpays out annually S7.O00,o0(
! IN premiums In the United States.
/ And there are the railroads who reaI
revenue from 2,2lOQ0O tons of tobacco
products every year. 81 .-.r
AS for the advertising business
here, again 1t is impossible to form
any estimate Of the enormous annua
outlay. -4E." b
The prohtbitlon of tobacco would also
hUocls1a9good+sized hole In the receipts
of4b thee United States government
4 The riHterp J, revenue receipts from
tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amount
ed EoI S295,s0a.355s4. Customs duties
pRpyiNed an additional $4,000, 900 IL
round figures, making the total revenu,
4 return to the government s3200o0,00o
! iglnrpenee, pr Popular Sentiment
1t is this interlocking Of the tobacco
business, with 50, many other interest!
and the vast amount of financial los!
that would be involved ih2the abolition
Of tobacco that Is one of the most Sc
rious aspects of the proposal to pro
hibit the sale of tobacco, a1proposal
however, which has little support b.
public sentiment If the newspaper ed
tors Of the country are correct in thell
estimate Of that sentiment
| In poll OF the editors made recent,
by the Tobacco 'Aferehahts' Association
VI the Culleu SUITES, tliFOuBh the 'fFeS!
Service Company of ( New York City
95 per cent of the F7Is47 editors who
replied expressed 8 the, opinion that tn,
people Of their, ,commun'ties were op
posed to any law. against tobacco. Al
these editors represent some 10000, Oot
readers the reaffts FORM d pretty gen
eral test of hatfeHai opinion.
| In theip 'femarks a accompanying theil
replies many Of the editors expressed
1t as their opinion that the oppos tor
Of their communities, to the abolition
Of tobacco was based to some extern q
least on, the damage such change
would9d6 to tie business Interests O
the comwnityH Fhis was particular!
tgHeeln the tobacco growing states anC
centers where there, ere large tobacco
plants.
But when the extent OF the bushes!
4 ln%6iVed In the allied interests Of tn,
t6laccoo trn de- is considered, as above
briefly dutFhed1it isrclear that there
Is hardlgra section Of the country tina
would not be affected directly or In
directly by aboHShing tobacco.
TERMS d ORIGIN IN DISPUTE