Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — Decline of the Cigarette. [ARTICLE]

Decline of the Cigarette.

The Philadelphia Press says: “A prominent wholesale tobacco dealer claims that cigarette smoking is dying out, and that 14,000,000 le§s cigarettes were sold in 1883 than in 1882. He says: ‘The taste of the American smoker is improving, and I find the betteir grade of cigars sells more rapidly than the common ones. This means a fine grade of domestic cigars. The manufacture increases and the importations are at a stand still, or, if anything, slightly decreasing. New York is the center of the cigar-making trade. She has nearly 4,000 factories, and turns out 1,000,000 cigars a year. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois rank after New York. There were made in this country last year 3,177,860,952 cigars, about forty for every pound of tobacco used. How many imported? About 1 35,000,000, a totul of about- 3,150,000,000, or sixty for every man, woman, and" child in the United States, and 250 for every man over 21 years of ages” A life spent worthily should be measured by deeds, not years. ,