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Many industries
TIED TO TOBACCO
Prohibition of Weed Would Mean
Big Financial Loss to
Allied Trades.
WHO USES THE MATCH?
The Smoker Mainly—Also Responsible
for Spending Hundreds of Millions
Annually for Licorice, Sugar,
Coal, Cigar Boxes, Tin
Foil, Etc.
By GARRET SMITH
“Got a match?”
How many times a day is that ques
tion asked In these United States?
How many more times is the question
unnecessary because most pockets are
kept well supplied with the useful
3ittle article? Anyhow, inasmuch as it
is estimated that there are 30,000,000
tobacco users in (lie country, we would
(guess that the answer to that question
Would run into the hundreds of mil
lions.
For if it weren't for the smokers in
these days of electric lights how many
matches would be used? A pretty
small proportion of the number of
these “sticks of blazes” produced in
the country every year. Abolish to-
Ibacco and the match business would be
shot to pieces.
But the match business is only one
of a dozen or more allied industries
(which derive large revenues directly or
indirectly from (lie tobacco trade and
would suffer heavily if national pro
hibition of tobacco were to go into
•effect as some our reformers Vould
(have it. The annual sales of tobacco
(products, based on retail prices, is es-
Itimaled at $1,937,000,000. Of the cost
of producing and selling this quantity
lof cigars, cigarettes and other forms
of the weed, some hundreds of million
dollars are paid out for other things
[than th<> raw tobadbo and labor of
'making it up.
$25,000,000 a Year for Boxes
For example, the tobacco trade con
sumes each year 43,000,000 pounds of
(licorice, 50,000,000 pounds of sugar,
hotli used in flavoring tobacco, jmd
10;>0,000 tons of coal. If is estimated
jtbat the value of wooden cigar boxes
iused is $25,000,000 a year, quite an
(item to the lumber business and” to
(manufacturers of the boxes. ,
In making those boxes 550,000
.pounds of nails are employed. Other
large items used in making and pre
paring tobacco for sale are tin and
lead foil, paper for bags and cigarette
wrappers, cloth for tobacco bags, la
bels, coupons, etc., involving the print
ing trade extensively. ’
Then building contractors and manu
facturers of machinery are largely in
terested. Investments in plants and
machinery employed in manufactur
ing tobacco art* estimated at $102,000,-
000. Replacement, up-keep and inter
est on the investment make no small
sum annually.
And let realty men note there are
approximately 325,000 tobacco farms
in the country, with a total estimated
valuation of $100,000,000. Of further in
terest to real estate men is the fact
that there are 700,000 retail establish
ments selling tobacco, involving a total
rental and up-keep impossible to esti
mate, besides the large amount of of
fice space occupied by administrative
■branches of the general business.
The insurance men, too. have their
share of the pickings. The tobacco
bus'tiess pays out annually $7,000,000
In premiums in the United States.
And there are the railroads who reap
revenue from 2,210.000 tons of tobacco
(products every year.
As for the advertising business,
here again it is impossible to form
any estimate of the eno>mous annual
outlay.
The prohibition of tobacco would also
(knock a good-sized bole in th t > receipts
of the United S’ates government.
•The internal revenue receipts from
tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amount
ed to $295,809 . ■ 155.44. Customs duties
provided an additional $25,000,000 in
round figures, making the total revenue
return to the government $320,000,000.
Influence on Popular Sentiment
It is this interlocking of the tobacco
bus ness with so many other interests
and the vast amount of financial loss
i t would be involved in the abolition
• i tobacco that is one of the most se
i' ous aspects of the proposal to pro
hibit the sale of tobacco, a proposal,
however, which lias little support by
public sentiment if the newspaper edi
tors of the country are correct In their
estimate of that sentiment.
In a poll of the editors made recently
bv the Tobacco Merchants’ Association
of the United States, through the Press
Service Company of New York City,
95 per cent of the 7.547 editors wlio
replied expressed the opinion that the
people of their commun'ties wore op
posed to any law affairs; tobacco. As
those editors rep o.«eiit s i,) (!
readers the results form a pretty gen
eral test of national opinion.
In their remarks accompanying their
rep’ies rrnr" of fpe odi ••• •
It as their y_ mt. : tLo yjr-.-w
Sulphate of Ammonia
Nitrate of Soda contains 16 to
18 per cent and sells for about
$4.00 a unit, while Sulphate of
Ammonia contains 25 percent and
sells for about $3.00 per unit.
Many of our best customers tell
us that they get better results
from Sulphate of Ammonia than
from Nitrate of Soda. See J. O.
and C. M. Kimbell for either of
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Duffey’s Blacksmith Shop.
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Donough. L. N. DUFFEY.
of their communities to tin* jibulition
of tobacco was based to some extent at
least on tbe damage such a change
would do to the business interests of
the community. This was particularly
true in the tobacco growing states and
centers where there were large tobacco
plants.
But when the extent of the business
Involved in the allied interests of the
tobacco trade is considered, as above
briefly outlined. It is clear that there
Is hardly a section of the country that
would not be affected directly or in
directly by abolishing tobacco.
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