The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-07-09
MANY INDUSTRIES
TIED TO TOBACCO
Prohibition Of Weed Would Mean
Big Financial Loss to
Allied Trades.
WHO USES THE 1ATcH7
VIE Smoker Malnly--Aiso Responsible
sor spending hundreds Of Millions
Annually for Lieoriee, Sugar.
CosI, Cigar Boxes, Tin
Foil, etc.
~ GARRETT sMITH

eAsn asked In these United Statepi
How many more times 10 the question.
unnecessary because most pockets are
hept well supplied with the useful
nttle aStielei Anyhow, inSsmuch a. n
b estimated that there are 10000, 600
tobacco users In the country. We would,
Huese that the answer 10 that question
would run into the hundreds Of mill
lions.
For II Il 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 sticks OF blsxes' produced In
the country every year. Abolish to
bacco and the match business would be
shot TO pieces.
But the match business is only one
Of q dozen or more allied Industries
which derive large revenues directly or
Indirectly from the tobacco trade and
would suffer heavily II national pro.
hlbitlon Of tobacco were TO 20 into
effect as some OF our reformers would
have II. The annual sales Of tobacco
products, based on retail prices, IL e..
'fimated at 81, 997, 200, 600 or the cost
of producing and selling this quantity
Of cigars, cigarettes and other forms
Of the weed, some hundreds OF million
collars are paid on: for other things
than the raw tobacco and labor OF
making It up.
&2b,0o0, 900 a Year for Boxes
For example, the tobacco trade con-
s0mes each year 1900, 600 pounds Of
Bcorice, 50,OOO,OO pounds Of sugar,
both used In havOring tobacco. and
$4,000 tons OF coal. II Is estimated
mat the value OF wooden cigar boxes
used 10 a25,0OO,OOO q year, quite an
hem to the lumber business and 70
manufacturers OF the boxes
In making these boxes n0O0O
pounds OF nails are employed. Other
large items used In making and pre-
pairing tobacco for sale are tin and
Mad foil, paper for bags and cigarette
wrappers, cloth for tobacco bags, la
bells, coupons, etc, involving the print
ing trade extensively.
Then building contractors and manu-
facturers Of machinery are largely in
terested. Investments In plants and
machinery employed In manufacture
ing tobacco are estimated at SlO2, UOO,-
600 Replacement. up-keep and inter
est on the investment make no small
sum annually.
And let realty men note there are
Approximately 325OOO tobacco farms
in the country. with total estimated
valuation Of SlGOWO,OOO. OF further IN
tercst to real estate men Is the fact
that there are 100000 retail establish,
ments selling tobacco, involving total
rental and up-kccp impossible to estl,
mate, besides the large amount Of Of
nee space occupied by administrative
branches of the general business.
The Insurance men, too, have their
share Of the plckings. The tobacco
business pays out annually ST,WM,0rt
in premiums in the United States.
And there are the railroads who real
revenue from 2,2l0,O0O tons OF tobacco
products every year
AS for the advertising business
acre again It is impossible to form
any estimate Of the enormous annus
outlay.
The prohibition VI tobacco would Rls'
knock n good-sIZed hole In the receipts
Of the United States government
The internal revenue receipts from
tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amount
cd 10 500, 500 1894. Customs dutle
provided an additional S25,0O0, 900 II
round figures, making the total revenu,
return to the government $4,000, wC
Influence on Popular Sentiment
II IL this nterlocHinr of the tobacco
business with so many other Interest
and the vast amount of financial los
that would he involved IN the abolition
Of tobacco that IL one OF the most 81
.TiOus aspects Of the proposal 10 pro
hibit the sale OF tobacco, a proposal
however, which has little support h
public sentiment II the newspaper ed
tors Of the country are correct In thei
estimate Ot that sentiment
In a poll Of the editors made recent
BY the Tobacco Merchants Association
Of the United States. through the Pres
Service Company az New York City
81 per cent of the 7,Si7 editors VIII
replied expressed the opinion that th
people Of their communities were ~
posed to any law against tobacco. 4
these editors represent some SO,0OOOO
readers the results form pretty ger
eral test ~ national opinion.
IN their remarks accompanying thel
replies many ~ the editors espresso
II Rs their opinion that the oppoS tic
of their communities 10 the abOlltio
OF tobacco was based to some extent .
least on the damage such n chang
would do TO the business interests Z
the community. This was particular
true in the tobacco growing states an
centers where there were large Tobacco
plants.
But when the extent OF the bushes
involved ia the allied interests Of II
tobacco trade IL considered, AS ab1'
briefly outlined II II clear that thel