Show AMERICA GREATEST CIGARETTE new york jan 29 the american people are now firmly established as the greatest cigarette smoking nation in the world according to statistics publish edby by the united states tobacco journal more afore than ten billion cigarettes were manufactured and sold in this country during 1911 without counting several billion more that were tax exempt because rolled by the smokers themselves taking the len length lenth th of the average cigarette as three inches the total consumed by the united states in a v i year if laid in a straight line would girdle the globe nineteen timea times taking the population of the country at every man woman and child during the past year 1091 cigarettes eighty cigars thirteen small cigars and four pounds of smoking tobacco in pipes or hand rolled cigarettes |