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TOBACCO IN MEXICO. 



Cigarettes in Cuba are called cigarros, and their consump- 

 tion is enormous. Strange as it may appear, there are some 

 confirmed smokers in Cuba who never use cigars at all, but 

 confine themselves to cigarettes. To the New Yorker it 

 looks curious to see a great, bearded man smoking a tiny 

 cigarette ; and, indeed were he to smoke his cigarette as the 

 New Yorker would smoke his cigar, it would be labor lost, so 

 far as getting any effect of the tobacco was concerned. But 

 the cigarette smoker inhales the greater part of the smoke, it 

 goes directly into his lungs, and into contact with a large 

 surface of mucous membrane, and, indeed, with the blood 

 itself. Were the New York cigar-makers to smoke a cigar- 

 ette in the same way it would make him so giddy that he 

 would be compelled to give it up long before it was consumed. 

 That the smoke does go into the lungs is proved by the fact 

 that a cigarette smoker can inhale the smoke and exhale it 

 again after drinking a glass of water." 



All tobacco grown upon the island of Cuba is not of the 

 finest quality ; the majority of it is far inferior to the best 



LIFE IN MEXICO. 



Mexican coast tobacco. The value of the tobacco lands of 

 this last mentioned country has not been fully developed. 



