50 TOBACCO : ITS HISTORY. 



as I have before stated, about 40,000 cigars as 

 the dally consumption in a male population of 

 scarcely 45,000 adults.* 



Tobacco and snuff manufacturers pay an excise 

 duty beginning at 57. 55. if they manufacture 

 under 20,000 lbs. weight, and rising gradually 

 up to 311. 10s. if their manufacture exceeds 

 100,000 lbs. Mere dealers or tobacconists pay 

 55. Sd. Excise inspectors visit the former, at 

 any time, to test the quantity in hand. 

 - Of all the various ways of using tobacco in 

 England, none has made a more striking advance 

 within the last twenty years than cigars. From 

 the earliest times familiar in the tropical regions 

 of America and Spain, the cigar was for a long 

 period scarcely known in England, and was con- 

 fined to the richer class of smokers. It is now in 

 universal use. 



The tobacco-leaf being delivered to the manu- 

 facturer in bales, boxes, or hogsheads, it is turned 

 out and sorted according to its quality — some 

 leaves being only fit for the interior, others for 



Joubert, ' Tabac,' p. 9. 



