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or seventy ounces a head, the produce of the whole world will amount 

 to near two millions of tons (1,953,125,) a year. Seventy ounces a 

 head, of course, far exceeds the average consumption of Europe, in 

 most of the countries of which tobacco is heavily taxed. It is certain, 

 however, on the other hand, that it falls far short of the consumption 

 of Asia, containing the majority of mankind, where women and chil- 

 dren smoke as well as men, and where the article is, moreover, un- 

 taxed. Near half the British tonnage which " entered inward " or 

 " cleared outward " last year would be required to convey the quantity 

 of this American weed, of which the value, at two-pence a pound, will 

 amount to nearly thirty-six and a half millions sterling, 36,462,500^. 

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