Show Where the Cigars and Cigarettes Would Ho Few people have any idea of the extent of the tobacco manufactures of this continent conti-nent or of their rapid growth Last year 3457300017 cigars and 94334O cigarettes were manufactured in the United States alone requiring over 91000630 pounds of leaf In 1872 not 40C33CCD pounds were used The vast bulk of tobacco however is consumed in other manufactures which required 217451000 pounds in 1884 So says an exchange and by additional addi-tional calculation it is found that in counting the cigars at four inches in I length there are enough of them manufactured I I manu-factured by placing them end to end to extend in a straight line 218264 miles or nearly nine times around the earth The near number of cigarettes manufactured counting them to average three inches in length would extend 47080 miles in length Both cigars and cigarettes by placing them end to end would extend to the moon 240000 miles and 25000 miles beyond |