Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — Our Consumption of Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

Our Consumption of Tobacco.

Last year 25,115,903 fewer cigars were made in the United States than In 1894, and 8,258,386 more pounds of smoking tobacco was manufactured. During the year there were manufactured in the country 4,180,915,203 cigars, 3,768,911,677 cigarettes, 256,160,505 pounds of I tobacco, and 11,705,414 pounds of snuff. There was an increase in the output of cigarettes of 485,768,077 over 1894, and a decrease of 477,160 pounds in the amount of snuff manufactured.