Show CIGARETTE SMOKERS ARE SWEARING SWEARING OFF OFF COKE INTERESTING STATISTICS on the cigarette clarette are giveR given in bt Tobacco a publication dedicated ed to the interests of the various departments of I If f weed manufacture The figures extend over a period of twenty tw n yrs years rs and andow Ji show ow a tremendous ua growth in the cigarette habit Jt it i beginning to toJ J c s ething oC of a decline j jIn ti In flU the use of cigarettes cl in the tile United States Staten wa was confided almost et j i t ayle sly I the tM larger cities and the annual consumption of paper tubes had at j I tamed tallied what t Tobacco calls wis the i insignificant total of There was wu a tax on them of per thousand and while this remained their lacrosse increase in j I popularity W was not rapid But in 1883 1181 the tax was as reduced to IB II tents a 1111 and in lit the following year we find and that ll cigarettes e were j 1 med Competition which wJ had previously been friendly now became e Aggressive I sad aad cigarette clarette sales anise were annually a ual swelled until in ISM more than o i Iwen were wen re sold But Bat this proved to tn be only a starter Several Se companies combined to t ene n ne large Lax concern and cigarettes were nut mt on Oft the tite market market below cost co t I IThe i The TIle result was w that smokers took to this form fonn of or the weed as never before and andin in III 1111 more than cigarettes were ware consumed in hi the th United States I I IThe i Tile The public became me alarmed and the result remit was wan that bills were Introduced Into late nearly Iy every legislature I Heavy licenses for the privilege e of j I I t Selling cigarettes cigarette u were adopted by many of the larger cities These measures j I J however 0 had effect on the cigarette until the government tax was in anaed from M lie I cents to 1 a thousand in the summer of 1897 17 There vs was a perceptible falling otc oft as 88 a result of cf f the increased x t tax But 1 the theL although repressive laws law have bave become no more stringent nt i M have been teen dipped cUpped from the cigarettes record Tobacco can find no other I i don for tor this decline dee line than that at loaM least O 2 smokers have Rave ceased to use UIe cigarette tt or er that a larger number are le more moderate In their consumption I I People te with delicate noses will win be able abIe to find dad some consolation eon in these theae later ter figures but bat a as there are still sun some a cigarettes pI going up In InSa I to Sa the Ute United States State every year it will be some time even should this thin i t vM continue before the air will wiy be rid of oC the aroma of burning paper and whatever else goes coea to make mace up the cigarette II tte of commerce I |