Tumbeki (or more correctly Teymbeki). This 

 is the common Eastern name for tobacco. It is 

 considerably exported to the countries in the 

 neighborhood of Persia and is smoked in the 

 pipe known as the Narghilli. In this pipe the 

 teymbeki burns in contact with a piece of incan- 

 descent charcoal. The smoker draws the vapor 

 through a flexible tube which passes to the bot- 

 tom of a water chamber and passes above it, 

 whence it is inhaled. The narghili is technically 

 a water pipe. The teymbeki is very strong in 

 nicotine, containing up to 5 or 6 per cent. 



Japan produces large and medium size leaf 

 of good color but poor in quality. It is 

 generally used for pipe and cigarette trade. 



The statistics of production for Asia are ex- 

 tremely unreliable. When we consider the teem- 

 ing populations of China, India and other 

 Eastern countries and the prevalence of the 

 smoking habit, it is very probable that the 

 figure of production (350,000 tons annually) 

 is much under the mark. There is very little 

 export of tobacco from the United States or 

 Europe to the East. Whatever tobacco is con- 

 sumed there is mostly of its own production. 

 EUROPEAN PRODUCTION OF TOBACCO 



In Europe the principal tobacco producing 

 countries are Germany, France, Austria, 

 Russia, Italy and Turkey. 

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