266 TOBACCO IN MEXICO. 
Cigarettes in Cuba are called cigarros, and their consump- 
tion is enormous. Strange as it may appear, there are some 
confirmed smokers in Cuba who never use cigars at all, but 
confine themselves to cigarettes. To the New Yorker it 
looks curious to see a great, bearded man smoking a tiny 
cigarette; and, indeed were he to smoke his cigarette as the 
New Yorker would smoke his cigar, it would be labor lost, so 
far as getting any effect of the tobacco was concerned. But 
the cigarette smoker inhales the greater part of the smoke, it 
goes directly into his lungs, and into contact with a large 
surface of mucous membrane, and, indeed, with the blood 
itself. Were the New York cigar-makers to smoke a cigar- 
ette in the same way it would make him so giddy that he 
would be compelled to give it up long before it was consumed. 
That the smoke does go into the lungs is proved by the fact 
that a cigarette smoker can inhale the smoke and exhale it 
again after drinking a glass of water.” 
All tobacco grown upon the island of Cuba is not of the 
finest quality ; the majority of it is far inferior to the best 
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LIFE IN MEXICO. 
Mexican coast tobacco. The value of the tobacco lands of 
this last mentioned country has not been fully developed. 
