The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-06-17
MANY INDUSTRIES
TIED TO TOBACCO
Prohibition Of Weed Would 2eaa
Big Financial Loss TO
Aired Trades.
WHO USES THE MATcH7
The Smoker Rainly--Also Responsible
for Spending Hundreds ct Millions
Annually for L'corice, Sugar,
Coal, Cigar Sexes. Tin
Foil, etc.
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SCOT q match:'
How many times q day i that ques-
ton asked in these United States?
How many more times IS the question
because most pockets ere
kept wen Supplied with the useful
little article: Anyhow, inasmuch as Il
Is estimated that there are 50,00ou80
tobacco users in the country, we would
CUES, that the answer 70 that question
would run into tie hundreds of nil
lions
For if il weren't for the smokers in
these days OF electric lights how mgny
matches would be usedf \ pretty
small proportion Of the number OF
these sticks Of bia2es' produced in
the country every year Abolish to, /.
bacco and the match business would be
shot 70 pieces.
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 suffer heavily if national pro-
hibition of tobacco were to go into 4
effect as some of our reformers would /,
have IT, The annual sales of tobacco (
products. based on retail prices, is es- +
timated at 81 1887 100000. OF the cost I
of producing and selling this quantity
Of cigars, cigarettes and other forms
of the weed, some hundreds of million
dollars are paid out for other things
than the raw tobacco and labor OF
making it Up.
SOS ,o03 600 a Year for Boxes
For example, the tobacco trade con-
strnes each year 100000 pounds Of
licorice, 50,00o009 pounds of sugar,
both used in favoring tobacco, and
G50,000 tons Of coal. 1t is estimated
that the value Of wooden cigar boxes
used is s25,0o0,Gc0 year, quite an
item TO the lumber business and to
manufacturers of the boxes.
In making these boxes $4,000
\ pounds of nails are employed. Other
large items used in making and pre-
4 pairing tobacco for sale are tin and
/ lead foil, paper for bags and cigarette
wrappers. cloth for tobacco bags, la
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ing trade extensively.
Then building contractors and manu-
facturers Of machinery are largely in
terested. investments In plants and
machinery employed in manufactur-
ING tobacco are estimated at $f02,oeo,-
eco. Replacemert, up-keep and inter
eat on the investment make no small
sun annually.
Ard let realty men note there are
approximately $4,000 tobacco FARMS
In the country. with a total estimated
valuation of S1c9 0G9G0o OF further in
: terest to real estate men is the fac
. that there are 100000 retail establish
l ments selling tobacco, involving tota
s rental and up-keep impossible to est
G mate. besides the large amount OF OF
: flee space occupied by administrative
branches of the general business.
The insurance mon, too, have thei
: share Of the pickings The tohacc
bis ness pays out annually 100000
: In premiums in the United States.
a And there are the railroads who rea
W revenue from 2,210000 tons of Tobacco
d products every year.
AS for the advertising bushes
$ here again 1t is impossible to forl
! any estimate Of the enormous annu;
- outlay.
OIL The prohibition of tobacco would ais
I. knock a good-sized hole in the receip
IN Of the United States government
x Tho Internal revenue receipts fro
a. to- eeco fer the fiscal year 1920 amour
~ 10 s2als09, 355.A4 Customs dutl
!, provided an additional $o5,000o00
round ti-rres, making the total reven'
nc return 10 the government s320000,0l
lnti,icnce on. Popular Sentiment
Y 1t is this interlocklng of the tobac
! bus ness with so many other interes
and the vast amount of financial Ia
that would be involved in the aboliti
.or cf tobacco that Is one of the most
at r.ous aspects Of the proposal to pl
hibit the sale of tobacco, a propos
y however which has little support
,a public sentiment IL the newspaper e
tors Of the country are correct in TIL
Oh estimate of that sentiment.
20. In poll o. the editors made recen
ay. by the Tobacco Merchants ASSOCIATE
es Of the United States, through the Pr
Service Company Of New York 0l
iay 95 per cent of the 7,S47 editors "
replied expressed the opinion that
:. people of their communities were
,a posed to any law against tobacco.
ISL these editors represent some 10000.
ov- readers the results form pretty 3
eral test Of national opinion.
was In their remarks accompanying Il
sen replies many OF the editors expires
ride 1t as their opinion that the oppos'
-, Of their communities to the abolit
'Ae'' OF tobacco was based to some exten
least on the damage such cha
lsit- would do to the business interests
the community. This was particul,
tied true in the tobacco growing states
last centers where there were large tobi
plants.
But when the extent of the BUSH
involved In the allied interests of
rom tobacco trade Is considered. as al
briefly outlined. 4 Is clear that q