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nearly all (279 out of 300 males, and 32 out of 32 

 women) before entering prison. 



Venturi* found tobacco used by 14.3 per cent, of 

 criminal men, 15.9 of criminal women. 



Marambatf concluded that the love of tobacco 

 was the first passion that rooted itself in the youth- 

 ful criminal. Out of 603 juvenile delinquents be- 

 tween the ages of eight and fifteen, 51 per cent, 

 had acquired the custom of using tobacco before 

 their detention." 



In the Auburn state's prison, five hundred out 

 of six hundred convicts confessed that they began 

 the career which brought them there, by the to- 

 bacco habit. 



TOBACCO STATISTICS. 



Total tobacco crop raised in 1888, as estimated 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture : 



Area, 747,326 acres. 



Product, 565,795,000 pounds. 



Value, 43,666,665 dollars. 



Report of Internal Eevenue Department gives 

 the following amounts of tobacco on which taxes 

 were paid in the year ending June 3, 1892 : — 



Number of cigars, cheroots and heavy cigarettes, 

 4,548,797,417. 



Number of light cigarettes, 2,892,982,840. 



Total, 7,441,782,257. 



Pounds of snuff, 11,164,351. 



* " Studio sultabacco nei pazzi e nei criminali." 

 t "Revue Scientifique," 1889. 



