"According to General Pleasonton, who collected the tax on them, there
were 1,332,246,000 cigars used in the United States last year. This one
billion three hundred and thirty-two million two hundred and forty-six
thousand cigars were undoubtedly retailed at ten cents apiece. So we
smoked up in this country, last year, $133,224,600 worth of tobacco."
This does not include pipe-smoking nor chewing tobacco.
The total amount of the vile weed produced in the world annually is as
follows:--
Asia, 309,900,000 pounds.
Europe, 281,844,500 "
America, 248,280,500 "
Africa, 24,300,100 "
Australia, 714,000 "
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Making a total of, 865,039,100 "