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Show YEARLY TOBACCO CONSUMPTION. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Gives Some Interesting Figures. Washington. Cigarettes to the number num-ber of 55,402,33G,113 woro consumed In tho United States In tho latt year. Counting tho number of mon and boys of smoking age as 26,000,000 each consumed con-sumed 2,216 cigarettes last year. In this enormous total are not Included In-cluded millions of clgarottes which aro listed as cigars. Tho preliminary report of the commissioner com-missioner of Internal revenue shows that tho receipts of his olflco from all Internal rovenuo sources during tho year ending July 31, 1908, was 1251.-C6S.9S0, 1251.-C6S.9S0, which Is a decrcaso of $17,998, 072 as compared with tho fiscal yoar ended July 31, 1907. Tho expenses In collecting this sum will amount to nbout $4,832,000. The quantities on which tax was paid during tho year aro as follows: Spirits distilled from fruit, gallons, 1,670,031. Spirits distilled from materials other than fruit, gallons, 119,808,402. Imitation champagne, etc., 69 bottles. bot-tles. Fermented liquors, C8,747,680 bar rein. Clgnrs weighing moro than thrco pounds per 1,000, 6,90i,7C8,783. Clgnrs not weighing moro than throo pounds per 1,000, 100,352,396. Cigarettes weighing not moro than three pounds -or 1,000, 55,383,201,030, Clgarottes weighing moro than thrco pounds per 1,000, 19,131,483. SniifT, pounds, 22,547,752 ; tobacco, pounds, 364,109,395; oleomargarine, pounds, 78,107,302; filled cheoso, pounds, 127,152. |