8 TOBACCO. 



over $180,000 for tobacco, while there are many 

 instances where from live to ten members of a cir- 

 cuit spend more for this weed than their whole 

 circuit gives for all the church charities combined. 



It was estimated from the internal revenue tax 

 paid in the fourth district of Michigan, one of six 

 internal revenue districts, that the tobacco used in 

 that district must have cost the consumers $1,500,- 

 000 in one year, — about ten times the cost of sup- 

 porting the University of Michigan and the stu- 

 dents therein for the same time. 



From the Independent we learn that a single 

 New Haven firm sells one hundred and twenty 

 thousand cigarettes a month to Yale students, or 

 for the ten months of the year, when they are in 

 town, one million two hundred thousand, at an 

 average expense of about eight thousand dollars a 

 year. 



There are many religious ( ?) communities which 

 spend an aggregate of from five hundred to one 

 thousand dollars every year for this drug that can- 

 not afford the expense of a minister. 



Three hundred dollars a year for tobacco, and 

 three dollars for Bible, tract, and mission purposes. 

 Eighty dollars for tobacco, and twenty-five cents 

 for home missions. Yet these are but samples 

 of almost numberless cases. 



In a Southern Presbyterian paper a correspond- 

 ent states that K in a town of five thousand inhabi- 

 tants, in North Carolina, sevent} r -five thousand 

 dollars' worth of snuff is sold every year." He 



