156 TOBACCO. 



The amount consumed in the different departments 

 varies very much. Snuff-taking is most practised in 

 Oise, Seine Inferieure, Eure, and Eure-et-Loir, at the 

 maximum rate of 375 grm. per head ; and least in the 

 departments of Doubs, Pyrenees Orientales, Nord, Haut 

 Rhin, and Haute Savoie, where the average is but 

 100 grm. In smoking, however, there is rather a reverse 

 order of things, the Nord, Haut-Rhin, and Pas de Calais 

 consuming at the rate of 2 kilo, per head, while the 

 minimum is found in Haute Savoie, Cantal, Correze, 

 Creuse, Aveyron, Dordogne, Lot, and Lozere. Ten 

 departments only consume tobacco above the average, 

 while 70 are actually below it. If all France smoked the 

 same quantity as do the people of Nord, Haut-Rhin, and 

 Pas de Calais, the consumption for the whole country 

 would be 73,286,174 Mo. instead of 31,000,000; and 

 vice versa it would be only 6,265,968 kilo, if calculated 

 according to the average of Lozere, which is only at the 

 rate of 171 grm. per head. 



The department of the Nord, in 1884, had 449 hectares 

 (of 2-47 acres) under tobacco, the yield of which was 

 1,168,206 Mo. 



Germany. The total area of land engaged in growing 

 tobacco in Germany in 1878 was about 44,520 acres; 

 nearly two-thirds of this total was distributed among 

 Rhenish Bavaria, Baden, S. Hesse, and Alsace-Lorraine. 

 The total consumption of tobacco in the German empire 

 in that year was 2,196,000 cwt. The home production 

 was 596,776 cwt., the remainder being imported. 



The aggregate area of land cultivated with tobacco in 

 the States of the German Customs Union did not vary 



