ackers, producers, purchasers 



Apart from farm workers, tlie largest segment of labor 

 in Connecticut's tobacco industry is in the warehouses 

 where leaf is bulked, sorted, and packed. The manu- 

 facturing of tobacco is no longer among the major enter- 

 prises of the state. There were, according to the latest 

 census, six cigar factories. Their output was almost 22 

 million in the fiscal year ending June 1970 out of the 

 nearly 8.4 billion cigars produced nationally. Several 

 Connecticut firms registered as manufacturers of to- 

 bacco products, most of them in small-\olume opera- 

 tions, and tlicrc are two export warehouses. 



Foreign markets in 1970 took close to two million 

 pounds of shade tobacco. Of this, 849,390 pounds, 

 valued at $4,058,085, were Connecticut-grown. The 

 United Kingdom received 231,811 pounds, 209,855 

 pounds were exported to Canada and the Canarv Islands 

 recei\ed 112,658 pounds of Connecticut-grown shade 

 tobacco. Connecticut \'alle\' Broadleaf tobacco was also 

 another export item for 1970. Broadleaf exports were 

 valued at $360,921 weighing 258,308 pounds. West 

 Germany received the largest amount of this type, 

 134,733 pounds; the Canary Islands took 48,430, and 

 Jamaica, 24,024 pounds. Of the binder types sent to 

 foreign purchasers, a large portion of the Broadleaf 

 came from Connecticut farms and probably a small part 

 of the Havana Seed also. 



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mokers' choice 



As holds true throughout the rest of the country, 

 cigarettes represent the major part of retail tobacco sales 



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