Show American Smokers Puff One e Cigarettes Daisy Per Capita Consumption of Coffin Nails Zooms To 2324 a Year WASHINGTON Smoking devo devo- tees Lees in the United States are blowing blow blow- ing ng smoke rings to the tune of ot one billion cigarettes a day The wartime business boom gave a terrific boost to cigarette smokIng smoking ing ng especially among teen-agers teen and women with paying good-paying jobs Sales of ot fa made factory cigarettes Jumped from rom billion in 1939 to 52 billion more than double in hi a aper aper aper per capita consumption of ot 2324 Thirty five years ago the respectable respectable respect respect- able smoking cigar-smoking business man regarded the smoker of ot a factory- factory made cigarette as a sort of ot social outcast Back in the spittoon era many members of ot congress were tobacco chewers hewers and proud of ot it fA A A typical newspaper advertisement of at the period jeriod pictured Speaker Joseph Cannon of ot Illinois with the caption The thinking men of at America chew hew twist Today the made factory cigarette not only has wide social acceptance but jut Is a sizeable item in the national national national na na- na- na economy It Is estimated that hat the cigarette tax increases the U. U S. S Labor Departments Department's consumer price index by nearly one per cent In 1946 American consumers paid a total of ot 34 billion dollars for tor tobacco to to- bacco jacco products and smoking sup- sup plies The 1929 expenditure for tor tobacco tobacco to- to bacco acco products was 17 billion dol dol- lars ars Cigar Use Falls Off Treasury tax experts who recently recently recently re re- re- re made a study of ot tobacco use report that cigarettes in 1946 accounted for tor 77 per cent of at the total otal tobacco used in production Back Jack in la 1915 HilS cigarettes accounted for or only 10 per cent The use of ot cigars and smoking tobacco for pipe and your roll-your-own cigarettes has had a big drop Inthe in inthe inthe the past 30 years The biggest slump has las been in tobacco chewing Consumption Consumption Con- Con recently was less than third one-third that of 1918 Cigar smoking in this country reached a peak of 81 billion cigars in 1920 the silk shirt year It dropped to 45 billion in depression picked up some in the years immediately before and during the war Government research experts say there has been a significant decline decline de de- de- de cline dine in cigar consumption since February 1947 They explain that recent increases in the cost of ot living living liv liv- ing may have affected the demand Price Increases Consumers recently were paying 6 cents apiece for cigars which before before be- be fore ore the war sold at two for 5 cents an increase of per cent Changes in smokers' smokers income or Inthe in inthe the price of ot cigarettes seem to have I had only moderate effect on the demand Between 1929 and 1943 a period which included many depression de de- de years average changes In 1 volume of ot cigarettes consumed were less ess than half hall as large as the average average average aver aver- age changes in Income levels Other government surveys have indicated that in hard times many people cut clothing and even food purchases before reducing their customary purchases of cigarettes and gasoline The consumption of snuff has been unchanged for tor about 30 years Thirty four million pounds were produced in 1916 forty forty- one million pounds in 1929 and thirty-six thirty million pounds in 1933 The production peak was pounds In 1945 |