HUGE CIGARETTE OUTPUT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 July 1925, Page 10

HUGE CIGARETTE OUTPUT

A total of 73,000,000.000 cigarettes will he produced in the United States this year, increase of 56,000.000,000 in ten years, according to Air, David Ai. Blair. Fniled States Commisstuiior of Internal Revenue. In the same period cigarette production in Japan has increased from 7.C00.000.000 to 23.000.COO.COO. and in Germane from 12.000.000.000 t(. 25.C00.CC0.000. Gigtreties produced in the United States alone, if laid end to end, would girdle the earth at the Equator more than 126 times. The American tobacco industry this year will pay more iti taxes than was c> I-lectc-il by the Government from all internal revenue sources prior to 1914. declares Commissioner Blair, who e.-ii mates that the tax collections from this one industry alone this year would approximate 515.C00.000 dollars. For every man .woman and child in the United States there was collected 3 dollars 12 cents from tobacco taxes and custom?, duties. "The revenue from .tobacco in the 1 uited States far exceeds that of anv other country in the world, ami the per capita consumption is greater than any country in the world except Belgium.' Air Blair states. "The tobacco industry is one of the great industries of this country. Its interests and the Government's interests are closely allied.”