Data on the current tobacco industry in New York have been 

 supphed by the Economic Research Service, United States Department 

 of Agriculture; and the State of New York, Department of Commerce. 

 Other data on the current industry are derived from the Internal 

 Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, the New York De- 

 partment of Taxation and Finance, and the Tobacco Tax Council in 

 Richmond, Virginia. 



Tobacco and Americans, Robert K. Heimann (1960) and The Story 

 of Tobacco in America by Joseph C. Robert (1967) were both in- 

 valuable sources for various accounts in this booklet relating to tobacco 

 histories and biographies. Other reference works used were The 

 Mighty Leaf, Jerome E. Brooks ( 1952); The Bright Tobacco Industry, 

 Nannie May Tillie (1948); and the New York State Business Fact 

 Book, Department of Commerce (1969 and 1970 supplement). 



The quotations on pages 8 and 9 are from A History of New York, 

 Washington Irving (1809) and found in the Arents Collections, New 

 York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Samuel 

 Russell quote on page 11 is from Heimann as is the quote beginning 

 on page 13 and the Circuit Court quote on page 23; Roosevelt's quote, 

 found on page 17 is from Robert as is the Tenement House Commis- 

 sion quotation beginning on page 18 and the Court's quote on page 23. 



Permission to quote directhf from this booklet is granted. 



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