®l)r i. 1. ItU ICtbrara 



Nortli (Earoltna ^tate Hmoeraity 



SBP73 

 T6?.e 

 no . 1?. 



•flcco has remained 

 ; if 5 centuries of use. 

 kis type of tobacco 

 idantly as in Mary- 

 \ers harvested about 

 2 tobacco, as it is 

 ores, and sold it for 

 r, 29 million pounds 

 [after the necessary 

 \stically. More than 

 id tobacco were ex- 

 itzerland, the major 

 L purchased 7.2 mil- 

 iufacture of tobacco 



some Maryland to- 

 pholesale value of 

 \te was about $100.6 

 to products totaled 

 »ai m.tuwn m wnoiesdle. Maryland con- 

 imers paid almost $28 million in cigarette taxes 

 to the state in 1970 on over 465 million packages 

 of cigarettes. Tobacco, an age-old industry in 

 Maryland, has remained and will continue to re- 

 main a prime factor in the growth and develop- 

 ment of the economy of Maryland. 



Erratum: The picture on page 16 is of George, First 

 Lord Calvert, father of Cecil and Leonard, who arc 

 referred to in the caption. 



History 

 First Edition 



THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE 



1776 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 

 1971 



UNIVERSITY UBRARIES 



