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tobacco economy. Those lie in the products of its fac- 

 tories and in retail sales. 



More than 110 billion cigarettes were manufactured 

 in 1959 by Virginia's seven factories, chiefly at Rich- 

 mond. This total is but a part of the tobacco goods pro- 

 duced by these plants and a few others. The joint output, 

 as recently reported, included 23,159,145 pounds of 

 smoking tobacco, over 1 milhon pounds of chewing 

 tobacco (most of it twist), and more than 125 million 

 cigars. 



A report for 1958 shows that the value of all tobacco 

 goods manufactured in Virginia exceeded $1,122,000,- 

 000. This included the federal excise on all such com- 

 modities. Tobacco is first in the total value of products 

 manufactured in Virginia, representing 30 percent of all 

 nondurable goods produced in the State. 



Out of a total of more than 27.5 bilhon cigarettes 

 exported from the United States in 1958, nearly two- 

 thirds were of Virginia manufacture. An additional 

 near-3.5 billion tax-free cigarettes were shipped out 

 from Virginia as "sea stores," a term that covers tobacco 

 goods for sale to passengers afloat or aloft. 



achlnes are run by workers 



Batteries of remarkable machines turn out 20 to 25 

 cigarettes a second, and modern factories have other 

 labor-saving devices. Yet a good-size working force in 

 Virginia is needed for tobacco manufacturing. Average 

 employment in the state's tobacco factories exceeds 



