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Show Utah rates low in sales of tobacco, liquor Tobacco, beer, and liquor sales in Utah during the 1961 calendar, year amounted to $56.4 million of $61.66 per capita. This fact was brought out in an analysis prepared by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. According to the Foundation study, tobacco product sales in Utah last year are estimated at $20,027,203, or $21.88 per capita; beer sales amounted to $17,773,049, or $19.42 per capita, cap-ita, and liquor sales totaled $18,633,365, or $20.36 per capita. cap-ita. These figures are all taken ta-ken from estimates prepared by the Utah State Tax Commission. The report notes that last year 64,359,935 packs of eig-aretts, eig-aretts, 1 7,899,133 gallons of beer, 410,307 gallons of wine, and 729,224 gallons of distilled spirits were sold in Utah. Foundation analysts point out that the apparent consumption of tobacco products and alcoholic alco-holic beverages in Utah is well below national averages. In fiscal year 1961, for example, Utah had the lowest per capita cap-ita sales of cigaretts in the nation. na-tion. Taxpaid cigarette sales in Utah amounted to 71.2 packs per capita, compared with a national average of 133.6 packs per capita. Similarly, the study shows that per capita consumption of distilled spirits for 1959 was 0.76 gallons per person in Utah compared with a national average av-erage of 1.31 galolns per capita. |