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Show IH DARTMOUTH LOSES iH ON PENNSY TRACK m (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, May S. The com- I puted per capita consumption of to- Mm bacco in this country has been stead- pf Uy gaining since 1865, according to ft, compilations made by the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the Department of W Agriculture. Before that time, back l? In 1839, it seems to have been about f 3.3 pounds. Following tho Civil War the computed average is as low as 2 pounds, and this was followed by a 1 climbing movement that reached 6.4 I pounds in 1905-1914 and 8 pounds during dur-ing tho following four years. Tobacco consumption In 1790, tb.0-oldest tb.0-oldest year for which It can bo seti-mated, seti-mated, appears to have been nearly 29,000,0000 pounds in this country. In 1917 it was 1,000,0000,000 pounds, while in 1918 it dropped back to 28,-)00,000, 28,-)00,000, rising to 914,000,000 pounds ast year. Pro-war consumption was eight times the consumption of forty yeara igo, and in tho war years apparently .en times that quantity. |