I O ANTI- TOBA CCO. 



In 1867 a German statistician estimated the production 

 of tobacco to be in 



Kilogrammes. 



Asia • 155,000,000 



Europe 141,000,000 



America 124,000,000 



Africa 12,000,000 



Australia 400,000 



M. Barral, who officially reported on the specimens ex- 

 hibited at the Paris Exhibition in 1866, thus estimates the 

 amount grown : — 



Kilogrammes. 



In America 75,000,000 



" Turkey 45,000,000 



" Cuba 32,000,000 



" Austria 29,000,000 



" France 22,802,000 



*' Germany 18,000,000 



" Russia 14,000,000 



'* Brazil 8,000,000 



" Roumania 2,000,000 



" Algeria 1,600,000 



" Italy 1,500,000 



" Belgium 1,500,000 



M. Barral adds : " The enormous figures, which have 

 passed before the reader's eye, testify to the facility with 

 which people fall into excessive expense, for the gratifica- 

 tion of a pleasure which has for its principal aim to kill 

 time, and stupefy the mind." 



Since 1841 the population of Great Britain has increased 

 25 per cent, but the consumption of tobacco, 43 per cent. 

 More than a quarter of a million of sovereigns are spent 

 every week on this narcotic, and that principally by one 

 sex. 



