Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-24
MANY INDUSTRIES
TIED TO TOBACCO
Prohibition of Weed Would Mean
Big Financial Loss to
Allied Trades.
WHO USES THE MATCH?
The Smoker MainIy-Also Responsible
sfor Spending Hundreds Of Millions
= Annually for Licorice, Sugar.
Coal, Cigar Boxes, Tin
Foil, Etc.
BY GARRETT SMITH



SCOT a match?"
How many times day is that ques-
ton asked in these United Statesf
How many more times is the question
unnecessary because most pockets are
kept well supplied with the useful
little article? Anyhow, inasmuch as it
is estimated that there are 100000
tobacco users In the country, we would
guess that the answer TO that question
would run into the hundreds of mil
lions
For if it weren't for the smokers in
these days of electric nights how many
matches would be used? 4 pretty
sHall proportion of the number Of
these sticks Of blazes' produced in
the country every year. Abolish to-
barco and the match business would be
s5''f to pieces.
i;ut the match business is only one
Of Il dozen or more allied industries
which derive large revenues directly or
indirectly from the tobacco trade and
would suffer heavily if national pro-
hihition of tobacco were 10 go into
effect as some If our reformers would
have It. The annual sales of tobacco
products. based on retail prices, is es-
1ilUated at 81 ,937 0tn,00O. Of the cost
q, producing and selling this quantity
OF cigars. cigarettes and other forms
of nm, wood Snro,. hundreds of million
dollars are rail out for other things
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influence or Popular Sentiment
II is this interlocking of the tobacco
business with so many other interests
aud the vast amount of financial loss
THAI would he involved in the abolition
Of tobacco that is one of the most Sc
rf"Qs aspects of the proposal to pro-
h.hlt the sale Of tobacco, a proposal
however. which has little support by
pubic sentiment if the newspaper edi-
tors OF the country are correct In their
estimate OF that sentiment.
In poll Of the editors made recently
by the Tobacco Merchants Association