Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 413, 18 March 1892 — TOBAECO ANOTHER CURSE. [ARTICLE]

TOBAECO ANOTHER CURSE.

In spite of all «kfiorta for tbe reatriction of tht* «*vil it 18 enormou9ly on the increase. From 18S0 to 1888 thero was an increaae of 44 oer cent in tae number of cigara tiaed in the United Statee, and near)y 400 p?r cent incr eaae in tbe ri» mber of ciga rettea. Beaides this. almoe? two-fifths of the tobacco u«ed in Rurope is produoed in thie oountry. Profeesor Wallaee. of Miehipau. snyM, *'The uee of cigsreftes has incKased fivefo]<l in the last thre» years." The tobacco hiil in the ''niU* 1 Stnt<-8, we told by varioua writers } is laqger than our bread bil). The whole 6ost of our natK>nal smoke is more than $300.000000 annuallr tbat ia. over seren timee more than is paid annoally for all ivligous purpo#es. In 1880 tt amounted to $6JOO for eaeh mnnV woman, and ChiJd in the cosntrv.

or, Bmokers alone, an aven:ge of nbout |3D apieoe, anour*>. whiob, aecording to Dr. Sperry 'a tion, would atoountat i per oent in aizty Tearf, to about $16,000 for eaeh «m6leer. % In 1880 the annual prod6ction of tobaeoo waa 462,000,000 poundß againet 268,000,000 pounds ten yean before. In the oity ef Kew York alone about 75.000,000 eigava are osed aonually, at a eoet of 19,000,000. With tbeee &ota in yiew. we ai* prepered to maotain the propoei* Uon |hat Ihe tnhaeeo hihit ae & ia tcHtaT4s f**efaftlbr, I ciali|t« amtaUy. anA mbti|fy a Bmd, A l>. |