Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — France’s Use of Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

France’s Use of Tobacco.

It was recently estimated by M. LeClair, the statistician, that in France there are about 6,000,000 smokers, and that out of every fifteen smokers eight smoke the pipe, five the cigar, and two the cigarette. The total consumption of cigarettes in France during 1898 was 294 milliards, or 807,000,000 a day, 3,700,000 an hour, 62,000 a minute, and about 1,200 a second. All these cigarettes placed end to end in a line would reach 514 times around the world.