The evening Star of this city raises the query, “Are we Smoking Too Much?” It then gives figures concerning the consumption of tobacco in the United States during 1892, which answer the query. It says:— The tobacco bill of the American people has grown to an enormous size. The people of the country use more tobacco and snuff every year. While the men spend more money on tobacco, the women are doing a larger business with snuff than ever before. How many cigars would you imagine were smoked in this country during 1902?—Nearly 7,000,000,000, says the Star. This is 679,437,000 more than were smoked only the year before. Besides this, 3,254,883,000 cigarettes were consumed, which is an increase of 357,213,000 over the number used in 1901. And all this does not even approximately represent the total consumption of tobacco in the United States in one year, since it makes no account of the “plug” and snuff uses of the weed. The Star further says:— The increase of leaf tobacco in ten years has been enormous. In 1893 the total number of pounds of leaf tobacco used in the production of tobacco, snuff, cigars, and cigarettes was 312,907,679. In 1902 the total was 427,553,964 pounds. . . . The production of tobacco by the principal States [in 1902] was as follows: Missouri, 84,332,641 pounds; North Carolina, 52,209,593 pounds; Kentucky, 39,406,680 pounds; Virginia, 31,602,779 pounds; Ohio, 25,437,840 pounds; New Jersey, 21,229,084 pounds. There were 26,423 cigar and 517 cigarette factories in operation. Virginia manufactured 460,702,354 cigars, using 4,096,602 pounds of tobacco. North Carolina makes comparatively few cigars, putting most of her manufacture into plug and other tobaccos. New Jersey produced more snuff than any other State, the total being 5,583,323 pounds, nearly one third of all that was used. “Do we smoke too much?” What can be done with a world so addicted to7smoking, but bring it to an end in smoke? “The wicked shall perish, . . . into smoke shall they consume away.” Ps. 37: 20.