p. 465 | Forty Years of Tobacco Consumption

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 19, 1882

Forty Years of Tobacco Consumption

An English firm of tobacco manufacturers have compiled a table showing the amount of tobacco manufactured, the revenue and the amount consumed per head of the population during the forty years from 1840 to 1880. From this it appears that in the former year the quantity of tobacco cleared was 22,876,641 pounds, and the quantity per head of the population was .86 pounds. Every year the manufacture increased up to 1877, when there was a slight decline until 1880, in which year the total was 49,174,672 pounds. The consumption per head of the population in 1879—that in 1880 not being given—was 1.41 pounds.