SLAVES TO TOBACCO
Smoking and drinking habits have established a firm hold upon Americans, according to Mr E. E. Cabell, the United States Commissioner of Inland Revenue, He estimates that in the three months ended September 50 last the .American public Smoked 5,600,000,000 cigarettes. Smoked 1,950,000,000 cigars. Drank 53,150,0G0gal of whisky. Drank 19,800,000 barrels of beer.
Americans seem to have been afflicted with an unquenchable thirst and a vastly increased hankering for tobacco, for all "these figures (says the ’New York Telegram’) are greatly increased over those of the same period for 1911. In the matter of cigarettes and cigars new high records were established. How the cigarette habit is growing is shown by the fact that over 1,000.000,000 more cigarettes wore smoked in those three months than in the corresponding three months of tho previous vear.
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Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 5
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137SLAVES TO TOBACCO Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 5
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