Show WHAT THE NATIONS SM Tastes of Leading European peODl in the Way of Tobacco We frequently hear remonstrant against tine smoking public of rn land Only a short lime ago a vigor J protest was entered by nonsmokiJ against those who wished to enjoy n afterdinner cigar Let the antitobacconist contrain himself that ho lives In England f If he follows this article he 11t will M that among the Important tiF nations P F Great Europe Britain Is one of tj smallest consumers of tobacco To our taste the tobacco of the con llnent m Is vile Our sympathies mti are en tlrcly with the Russians who conurn lees of this villainous than Hie people of any other proparatlo Kuroneal nation The people of Russia number rou h ly 1 103000000 and they only conS about 180000000 pound oC the trSS ni or noxious weed per > annum iVblch a iiiiunts 0 twenityfht oun5 aI I ndividual Pr Germany however has always hart tho reputation of being the home or smokorfl and yet It comes third In ih o list or smoking countries The popula tlon of the Gorman empire at the Ian census was returned at 02250000 and In I tine year they consumed 772G7 tons of lobucco This amounts to about fifty three ounces ner Inhabitant Austria boasts of 51000000 people M Us i population and between them tim manage lo get through a little over 108000000 pounds of tobacco a year Each Austrian therefore would boabla 1 to have two ten o pounds ounces of tn t bacco to last him a year If all thr in I habltanls i smoked I In France however where the consumption con-sumption of tobacco In mostly In the I form of very bad cigarettes each In I habltanl could smoke only iwo pounds I two ounces of tobacco Judging from I the quality of the French tobacco wo wonder how they can smoke oven that amount Taking tine I population of I France at 38518000 the amount of the I villainous week consumed In the year I can easily be deduced I With greater Inducements In I the shape of belter and cheaper tobacco I the t Inhabitants of England smoke more tobacco per man than their near neigh bors tIne French If wo take the lost census wo find that the people of Eng land l number about 38000000 and aj owing l for the yearly Increase they now certainly number a good many more If all of these smoked the amount of tobacco doled out to each on the lint of January to last for the year would only amount to one pound five ounces Thjs is about what a heavy smoker would consume In a month Taking however the approximate J I number of adult males In the kingdom at 9750000 we get an average of 111 ounces per man which is about what the average smoker gels through Yet we are not a nation much addicted to tobacco For really colossal smokers you must go to Belgium and Holland The popu lalion of Belgium Is a little larger than the population of London being about C250000 Ono would think from the returns that the Belgian infants were reared on tobacco If wo consider every soul in Belgium as a smoker we get the astounding average or eightyseven ounces per soul each year When however we reduce the population popula-tion to the probable census of males ot an age to smoke we get air average amount of twentytwo and a half pounds a year per man or a weekly consumption of seven and a half ounce Holland with Its j075000 Inhabitants comes second in the smoking world There is however some excuse for the Dutch smoking so much for their tobacco to-bacco is I very mild and of a pleasant flavor Nevertheless a yearly average of seventy ounces per man must te considered abnormal and the English antitobacconist has every reason to re Jolc6 that he docs not live under Queen Wllhelmlna Why do all these people smoke Well putting it roughly the consumption tobacco in France Is chiefly In the shape of cigarettes and cigars ID Russia the cigarette Is also unfortunately unfortu-nately too popular No ono In Hollaci or Belgium would thank you for the papercovered cartridges which the British soldier designates as two puffs and a spit The pipe prcdoro nates In Germany Holland and Belgium Bel-gium Austria and England are impartial im-partial The cigarette appeals to some tho cigar to the wealthy and the pIe maintains Its popularity During the past six years the consumption of cigarettes has almost doubled and this is not good for the nation at large though It may be for the revenue aai the tobacconists London Express Dangers of the Day That was a mean trick Barry played Louise What was It Why ho disguised himself as a eec sustoker and found out her ngeCbI cago Record |