makers as a rule blend their own leaf and cut 

 or shred it by hand. An expert workman can 

 make about 3,000 cigarettes per day. 



In the United States, Turkish cigarettes are 

 of two kinds, imported and domestic. The im- 

 ported include those purchased already made 

 from Egypt, England, France, etc. In 1913 

 the value of cigarettes purchased directly by 

 the U. S. from Egypt was about $25,000 and 

 from England $22,000, other countries less. In 

 1914 the total cost of imported cigarettes (not 

 including those from Philippine Islands) was 

 $79,554. The value of such trade is, therefore, 

 not large. The Turkish cigarettes made in the 

 States are termed Domestic Turkish, and are 

 usually hand-made, though not by any means 

 exclusively so. It appears to be nothing more 

 than an idiosyncrasy to consider that a hand- 

 made cigarette is better than a machine-made 

 one. As in the case of cigars, other things 

 being equal it would appear that on many con- 

 siderations, hygienic as well as mechanical, the 

 balance is in favor of the machine. However, 

 many still think there is some peculiar talis- 

 manic virtue in a hand-made cigarette and are 

 willing to pay a higher price. There is, of 

 course, a pleasure in making one's own cigar- 

 ettes, but when they are bought made the ad- 

 vantage of hand-making is not very apparent. 



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