Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1911 — China Hits at Cigarettes [ARTICLE]

China Hits at Cigarettes

Anti-Smokers Find Average Consumed in Tokio is 99,530 Hourly—Wu Ting Fang Interested. Rhm|h«l. —For some time an anticigarette smoking society has existed in China, but its seal has not been apparent in any missionary effort But this is to be changed. Hlb excellency Wu Ting Fang convened a meeting recently at Shanghai and arrangements were made for an energetic crusade against the cigarette habit Mr. Chen agreed to address a circular letter on this matter to all the members of commerce of the empire. Dr. Yao, director of the International Institute, offered to post letters to the open ports and large towns asking them to render help. Mr. King consented to appoint lecturers to busy streets and other places to proclaim the benefits to be enjoyed by Abstinence from cigarette smoking, the salaries to be paid by himself. A sum of SSOO was subscribed for propaganda work, and money for 500 copies of a booklet entitled “China and the Cigarette' was promised by two members of the association. A secretary, a treasurer four general workers, sixteen persons to dissuade the cigarette smokers. to make Investlgatlons and to collect data, and ten persons to deliver lectures were sez. : . Statistics were recently compiled with regard to the amount of tobacco daily consumed by the citizens of Tokio. As regards cigare.tes, 81,930 cigarettes with mouthpieces attached and 17,600 without are smoked every

If these cigarettes, says a statistician, could be connected from end to end they would cover a distance of 27,000 feet, which exceeds the height of Mount Fuji by 14,610 feet In the Nihonbasbi ward of the city the smoking is heaviest, each inhabitant smoking on the average from 63.50 to 64 worth of tobacco per year. In addition, over 1,100 tons of cut tobacco are smoked every year.