Show MY LADY NICOTINE Our Annual Tobacco Bi Bill Is More Than The Scrap Book On lh My Lady Nicotine the people of the United States spend twelve times as much cash as they spend on the ministers ot of the gospel Our to tobacco tobacco bacco bi bill annually is double that ot of our bi bill for public education or for al all the furniture In our houses We payout pay out more money for te the fra fragrant fragrant grant weed than for or sugar Every time we spend 10 cents for bread w we hand handover handover over 4 cents for tobacco Al All the gold coined in this countr country last year would fall aU short of covering our smoking account by nearly O for we spend yeary yearly for cigars cigarettes smoking and chewing to tobacco tobacco bacco and snuff mor more than The money paid by Americans for smoking equals the amount paid for shoes for our Inhabitants Smokers bur burn up an equivalent In cur currency currency rency times the sum burned up In fireworks The vast fortune that WE we swap for the comfort of smoking chewing and snuffing would build thir thirty thirty ty great structures like the National Capital at Washington Each year rear we smoke nearly I cIgars cheroots stogies and al all tobacco cigarettes cigar cigarettes etes ettes with paper wrappers and con consume sume pounds of smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff Every day we smoke cIgars and cIgarettes and either smoke or chew tons of tobacco an all of which costs Every minute of the sixteen hours a day that we are arc awake we make ourselves poorer by cIgars cigarettes and a halt half a ton of plug and fine cut cutI I It is estimated that there are devotees of the weed or about as many smokers as voters oters This esti estimate estimate mate Is based on the assumption that one person In each six of our population population tion Is a puffer of smoke When the bi bill for Is di divided divided vided among smokers the smoking habit look so purse breaking after al all For the amount spent by each smoker is only about 2 23 each yer year or less than 50 cents a week And yet the yearly sum lavished on this narcotic herb by anyone any one of thou thousands thousands sands of men would build a comfort comfortable comfortable able country house and support a bed bedIn bedin In a hospital besides Eight billion cigars a year ear Could a man smoke fifty cigars a da day he would have to Jve live more than years to consume al all the cigars smoke smoked by the nation In twelve months In length cigars average four and anda a halt half Inches Laid end to end the would make a brown streak little short ot of mies miles Cut CutIn Cutin In half and made Into two perfectos or the man of earth could from either of his two cigars blow smoke directly into the face of the theman theman man In the moon Placed end to end nd In 16 parallel rows they would foor floor floora a bridge across the Atlantic from New NewYork York too to Liverpool and foor floor i It tightly |