TOBACCO AND ITS HISTORY. 17 



death staiul against it ; and in 1862, on leaDiing that insanity 

 and [)ai'alysi.s liad increased in France, with the increase of the 

 rev(.'nue on Tobacco, ordered an examination of educational 

 institutions, and finding that tlie standard of scho]arshi[) and 

 character was ]ow(.'r amonij those wlio used tlie weed tliau 

 among tliosc; who did not, forbade its use in all tlie public insti- 

 tutions of France, l)y issuing a stern decree. 



Notwithstandinir all tins, France is a natic^n of smokers. 

 Germans, Turks and Russians smoke inveteratelv. Th(> habit 

 is universal in India and China, men, women and children, 

 using Tobacco. Even in CIreat Ihitaiu, tli;; IJniied States and 

 Canada, smokijig is on the increase, and boys may be seen 

 strutting about the streets with cigarett(^s ]!uirnig like locomo- 

 tives, before they are able to purchase thn/nn' L'^. 



TilK AMOUNT OF TOBACCO CONHl'Mi:!) IX Ol'R WORLD 



to-day is truly a[H)alling, and ils cost to th(i consumer is iniin- 

 itely beyond our comprehension. The Atiwriran (J racer gives 

 the followini>- sunnnarv of Tobacco used in the United States 

 during tlie year 1887 : cigars and cigarettes, $180,000,000 . 

 Tobacco for pipe use, $20,000,000 ; Tobacco for chewing, $50,- 

 000,000 ; netting in all, $250,500,000. 



Rev. Dr. Bolton of Chicago, in a lecture published in the 

 Cln'istian Nation, July 1, 1888, puts the iigures more than 

 double this amount. Tlie following are his estimates. He 

 says: "Turn to the United States census of 1880 and we will 

 find that $800,000,000 was spc^nt in the liquor interest in one 

 year ; $000,000,000 for Tobacco ; $505,000,000 for bread ; and 

 meats of all kinds $303,000,000 ; shoes $190,000,000 ; woollen 

 goods, $237,000,000 ; cotton goods, $210,000,000. So you see 

 that taking the whole countiy, agricultural distiicts as well as 

 great cities, our expenditure for liijuor and Tobacco are mcirc 

 than the prinu! necessities of life." 



By careful investigation it will be found that other nations 

 are as fairly represented by the expenditure on the weed as is 

 the American republic, 



