The Dawson news., 1924-09-23
M|LADYS NICOTINE IS
SETTING BUSINESS PACE
AN ENORMOUS INCREASE IN
CIGARETTE CONSUMPTION
IN UNITED STATES.
CROWDS $4,000, 900, 1000 GOAL
Tobacco Industry Has Increased It's
Output 450 Per Cent in Ten Years.
Ranks Third as Source of Revenue
To the Federal Government.


The cigarette has turned pacemak-
er in the business revival Treasury
figures and preliminary returns to the
business of making smokes for the
American people is increasing pro-
gressively at the rate of more than
one per cent month The industry
has swept past the $1,000, 100000 mark
and is crowding its way to the two
billion goal, says a Washington dis
patch.
During the month of July, treasury
figures disclose, 6,583,000 cigarettes
were manufactured in the United
States. This is an increase of 100000
600 over the number in July, 1928
If the pace is maintained there will
be manufactured and sold in the Unit
ed States during the current fiscal
years more than seventy-seven billion.
In 1914 the number manufactured was
1927, 900. Within the decade the to-
bacco manufacturing industry has run
up its output $50 per cent.
For every adult in the United States,
men and women, the cigarette facto-
ries are turning out this year almost
1900 cigarettes. This means that dur
ing 1924 every man and woman over
II years of age will be furnished an
average of more than three cigarettes
day. Two years ago the per capita
output was 800 cigarettes for every
adult. Consumption has increased, ac~
cording to- bureau of internal revenue
and census figures, about so per cent
within two years.
This increase is attributed largely
to the rapid strides that the smoking
habit has made among women, a
habit that has been fostered quietly
and sedulously, it is claimed, by some
OF the chief manufacturers of the
country. Feminine consumption of ci
garettes is in its infancy, however;
within a decade, unless there is abate-
ment, the per capita consumption of
cigarettes, considering adults only, will
be more than a pack of ten daily.
Perfurned "Fags" for Women
Notwithstanding the enormous out
put there is a scarcity at the present
time it is said of some of the brands
of perfumed cigarettes used exclusive
ly by women. Apparently the tacto-
ries, working overtime, can't make mi
lady's cigarettes fast enough.
AS source of revenue of the gov
ernment tobacco now ranks third, hg
ures lust made public by the bureau
OF internal revenue show The tax
collections from this source amount
to almost $1,000,000,000 and the total
for the year thus diverted to the treas
ury is exceeded only by revenues from
the income tax and the tariff. The
increase during the past fiscal year
was from $308,000,000 to $324,000000
In 1918. when wartime taxes were in
effect, receipts were $l50000,00O. With
in six wears the flow of tobacco taxes
to the treasury has doubled and with,
in another six years, at the same rate,
tobacco taxes will exceed the total OF
all customs duties
The governments figures also show
that while cigarette smoking has in
creased by almost so per cent within
three wears the consumption OF cigars
has decreased Dy 20 pei CSHI "l'iiiii
five years. Cigar smoking reached its
zenith as a habit in 1917, the internal
revenue bureaus returns disclose, when
.9,217,000 cigars were manufactured.
With the solitary exception with the
depression in 1921 cigar smoking
reached its lowest point last year,
when the total number OF cigars man
ufactured was 100000.
Within the next few months the
census bureau will make public its
figures on the growth of the tobacco
manufacturing industries between
1921 and 1928. In the former years the
product of cigars and cigarettes was
placed at 100000. A fifty per cent
increase is expected to materiaiize
Production of Tobacco Increased
Increased consumption has greatly
stimulated the production OF tobacco,
and the weed is now being grown IN
sections where it was never before
produced. In South Georgia several
million dollars worth of tobacco has
been grown and sold this year, and
the acreage in this state will be great
" increased next year.