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For more than a century Wisconsin has been a major 

 producer of tobacco. Currently, more of a cigar leaf 

 type is grown in the state than in any other tobacco- 

 producing area in the Union. The people of the 

 Badger State are large-scale consumers of tobacco. 

 The estimated wholesale value of cigarettes alone 

 distributed in Wisconsin in 1959 came to more than 

 $75 million. In the same year the total value of 

 tobacco products disposed of was in the range of $90 

 million. The activities of the 6,000 Wisconsin farm 

 families who grow tobacco and their numerous 

 helpers in the fields, of the factories that produce 

 cigars and smoking tobacco, of the retail outlets that 

 meet consumer needs, and the tax yield from the 

 excise on cigarettes contribute to the economic and 

 fiscal advantage of the state. This booklet reports 

 briefly on the tobacco industry in Wisconsin and 

 presents the major facts in its long history. 



Tobacco History Series 



THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE, INC. 



910 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 

 1960 



NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 



