makers as a rule blend their own leaf and cut 
or shred it by hand. An expert workman can 
make about 3,000 cigarettes per day. 
In the United States, Turkish cigarettes are 
of two kinds, imported and domestic. The im- 
ported include those purchased already made 
from Egypt, England, France, etc. In 1913 
the value of cigarettes purchased directly by 
the U. S. from Egypt was about $25,000 and 
from England $22,000, other countries less. In 
1914 the total cost of imported cigarettes (not 
including those from Philippine Islands) was 
$79,554. The value of such trade is, therefore, 
not large. The Turkish cigarettes made in the 
States are termed Domestic Turkish, and are 
usually hand-made, though not by any means 
exclusively so. It appears to be nothing more 
than an idiosyncrasy to consider that a hand- 
made cigarette is better than a machine-made 
one. As in the case of cigars, other things 
being equal it would appear that on many con- 
siderations, hygienic as well as mechanical, the 
balance is in favor of the machine. However, 
many still think there is some peculiar talis- 
manic virtue in a hand-made cigarette and are 
willing to pay a higher price. -There is, of 
course, a pleasure in making one’s own cigar- 
ettes, but when they are bought made the ad- 
vantage of hand-making is not very apparent. 
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