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widespread of social habits has been recorded for vari- 

 ous periods. In the year ending June 30, 1959, for 

 instance, Missourians purchased over 550 milhon pack- 

 ages of cigarettes. 



This reported segment of retail sales is, obviously, but 

 a small part of the broad, complex pattern of the tobacco 

 industry's activities in the United States. 



Annually, for the past few years, tobacco manufac- 

 turers have paid a billion dollars and more to tobacco 

 farmers in America for the world's finest leaf. Tobacco 

 products sold in the retail markets of the United States 

 for nearly $6.8 billion in 1959. And these sales brought 

 some $2.7 billion to federal, state and municipal 

 treasuries. 



The business of producing and manufacturing tobacco; 

 promoting, distributing and merchandising the finished 

 commodity weaves throughout the intricate pattern of 

 America's economy. Many major and a great number of 

 minor industries participate in various phases of the 

 national tobacco trade. 



issouri's contributions range 



from leaf to cigarette macliines 



Missouri shares in almost all of the activities of the 

 tobacco industry. Its farmers grow fine Burley tobacco, 

 an essential ingredient in cigarettes, smoking and chew- 

 ing tobaccos and some snuffs. Its factories produce many 

 million cigars and nearly 13 Vi million pounds of smoking 

 and chewing tobacco. It has over 37,000 retail outlets 

 which dispense tobacco products. In 1958 these had a 



