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The Cost of Cigars

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 7, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 14.

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The Cost of Cigars

“Take a cigar,” is a pleasant invitation to almost every man. This politeness, however, is very expensive. The smoker of cigars who does not spend more than one dollar a week for “the weed” is a very rare specimen of man. Let us consider what that amounts to. In six months, $26. Bring that in as capital every six months, at seven per cent per annum, compound interest, and in fifty years it will be $22,423.98. That much for one man. Now figure on (say) a million men who indulge in cigars, and see what an immense amount of men’s possible profits ends in smoke.—Alta.