OCR Text |
Show Devotee of the Weed. Each year the people of the United States' smoke nearly 8,00,000,000 cigars, ci-gars, cheroots, stogies and alt-tobacco cigarettes, 3.600,000,000 cigarettes with paper wrappers and consume 300,000,-000 300,000,-000 pounds ot smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff. Evory day we smoke 23,000,000 cigars and 10,000,000 cigarettes, cigar-ettes, and either smoke or chew 600 tons of tobicco, all of which costs $800,000. Every minute ot the 16 hours a day that we are awake we make ourselves poorer by $800 for 23,000 cigars, 10,000 cigarettes and a halt a ton of plug and fine cut. It la estimated that there are 13,000,000 devotees of the weed, or about at many smokers as voters. This estimate esti-mate Is based on tho assumpUon that one person In each six of our population popula-tion Is a puffer of smoke. |