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Show We and the British Have Sweet Tooth. Britons have the sweetest tooth, and Americans come next, if the statistics statis-tics for consumption of sugar mean anything. An Englishman eats annually annu-ally 92.4 pounds, an American consumes con-sumes 79.2 pounds. In Denmark the average consumption is 72.6 pounds per capita; in Switzerland it is 55 pounds; in Germany, Holland, Sweden Swed-en and Norway it is from 39' to 44 pounds; in France, 35 pounds; in Belgium, 33; in Austria, 24.2; in Russia, Rus-sia, 19.8; in Portugal, 15.4; in Spain and Turkey, 11; in Italy, Bulgaria, Roumania and Serbia, from 6 to 7 pounds. The principal reason for these variations varia-tions is found in the relative highness or lowness of the customs duties on sugar and on the things with which it is commonly associated coffee, tea. etc. |