TOBACCO AND ITS EFFECTS. 75 



society are found, it is present. It sits in our legislative 

 halls, both State and National ; it travels by every convey- 

 ance, on land and water. The offices of the lawyer and 

 physician and the sanctum of the clergyman are alike 

 under its cloud. The coarse and blustering, and the ele- 

 gant, refined, and scholarly are equally its victims. To- 

 bacco's insidious spell has fallen upon the world, and the 

 pipe, the cigar, and the snuff-box are a common solace 

 among all ranks and conditions of men. 



" One of the most remarkable circumstances connected 

 with the history of tobacco is the rapidity with which its 

 growth has spread and its consumption increased." The 

 enormous extent to which its use has attained in Great 

 Britain and other countries is briefly shown in the follow- 

 ing figures : — 



In Great Britain the total consumption has been : — 



" 1857 32,856,913 lbs. 



" 1867 40,720,767 " 



" 1875 49.951,830 " 



" 1880 50,000,000 " 



" France the amount entered for consumption 



in 1880 was 45,000,000 " 



" Austria, during the same year . . . . ' . 81,000,000 " 



" Russia, " " « " 25,000,000 " 



The extent to which its use has increased in our own 

 country may be judged with tolerable accuracy by a com- 

 parison of the census-returns, given herewith, which show 

 the tobacco-production of the States and Territories for 

 the census years 1870 and 1880, the increase being 

 210,372,232 lbs. during the decade, or rather more than 

 eighty per cent. These figures become more significant 

 when it is known that the crop of 1880 was only a medium 



