There are only about 500 establishments in 
the whole U. S. engaged in cigarette manu- 
facture and about ten of these manufacture 
four times as many as all the rest together. 
There would in fact be fewer factories except 
for the popularity of certain brands of hand 
made cigarettes. 95% of the total output is 
made in 4 cities, i. e., New York, Dunham, N. 
C.; Richmond, Va.; and New Orleans. New 
York City alone manufactures: about 60% of 
the whole; Richmond about 16% ; New Orleans 
about 10% and Durham the balance. 
Every country manufactures its own peculiar 
brand of cigarettes. The best known and most 
popular kinds of cigarettes are those known 
as Virginian, Turkish, Havana, Porto Rican, 
Mexican, Russian and Philippine. 
The Havana, Porto Rican, Mexican and 
Philippine cigarettes are usually of the all-to- 
bacco kind—the others being paper wrapped. 
They are generally made from the cuttings and 
smaller leaves of cigar leaf tobacco. 
Turkish cigarettes are celebrated all the 
world over. The name is however mostly a 
misnomer, for nearly all the so-called Turkish 
cigarettes proper are made in Egypt, Greece, 
etc., and not in Turkey. In Egypt, however, 
the best Turkish cigarettes are made from 
tobacco grown in Turkey (in Europe) which 
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