C2rcular No. 249 
Issued January 1933 * Revised June 1942 
Washington, D. C. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
American Tobacco Types, Uses, and Markets 
By Cuaruis E. Gaan, Chief, Tobacco Branch, Agricultural Marketing Adminis- 
tration } 
Page Page 
INNO TO AON oer Se ee eee ee es 1 | Outlets for American tobacco- pata 89 
Classes and types of American-grown tobacco.. 4 Domestic manufactured products tts ee 89 
DPBS COTE 540 UG A 8 a a 6 SEDXOO Bit pt Tiel Cl Ces Sk en aie ae ey ae ale sau 98 
PTe=CUnEC eee ee eee See ee aioe ota 13 | Measures of tobacco consumption___________- 106 
PANT =CUNC Ore tetiie as ae EE no stare aura mek eae 18 Supply and disappearance. ______________- 106 
(One r WOME KOOL. ek ee eee 38 Quantities of tobacco used in manufacture. 108 
Miscellaneous! typess.--2----- 28222 a 58 Quantities of tobacco vroducts manu- 
Tobaeco marketing methods... _.____________- 61 LACTUTE Mees Me pear OL Cee ype ees 111 
iMheauctionimarketes 22 20s 61 Consumption per capita_..______________- 118 
(theshogshead| marke te 71 | Effect of tobacco-consuming habits on geog- 
Country sales-___.__- Bepsiiesssoss sea stueee 73 | raphy of tobacco production_._____________- 115 
Cooperative manele See ee eee se. Ee 74 | Imports 119 
arketinespenl0dSt serene = ee ee nee 78 eho Eireehin Rm ee, ae SRR ie SE oe Uae SE ah 4 
Losses in weight of tobacco______.__.._______- 78 Revenue from tobacco... ----.-- xg oe hes 122 
Preparation for storage..__.______________ gi) | Summary. = 22-2 2-222 -=- 2 8 eee 123 
Mheacinsottobaccossesa. eae COVEH'| fica 0) OXeN OKO UD. Cys RN a a Sars ep a ete ee Ue ee 125 
Summary of losses in weight___________.__ S19), || Matra orre) @llyaol 2 ok 128 
Facts regarding the introduction of tobacco to the white race by 
the Indians, the attention given it in the literature of history, poetry, 
and romance, and its pervasive influence in the social and economic 
affairs of mankind have made this crop unique among the products 
of the soil. The rapidity of.its expansion over the globe was phenome- 
nal. By 1531, less than 40 years after the discovery of America, 
Spaniards were cultivating the crop in Santo Domingo. By 1560 it 
was being grown in Europe as a garden plant; by about 1580 it was 
being grown commercially in Cuba and Venezuela and in Brazil by 
about 1600. By 1600 or 1605 mariners and traders had introduced 
tobacco into China, Japan, South Africa, and many other distant 
lands. 
1 The author is indebted to Sara Grace Smith for her assistance in the preparation of the manuscript. 
Acknowledgment also is made to Alice Wolfe, who prepared the tables; to Dr. W. W. Garner, Bureau of 
Plant Industry; to Dr. Charles J. Shohan, formerly of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics; to J. Barnard 
Gibbs, Foreign Agricultural Relations; to Emerson, M. Brooks, formerly of the Agricultural Marketing 
Service; to E. G. Beinhart, Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering; to H. M. Bain, Farm 
Credit Administration, and to Miss Claudia Thomson, of the Burean of Agricultural Economics, for 
their assistance and helpful suggestions. 
This circular was first issued as a contribution from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. In July 
1939, the work on which it is based and the author were transferred to the Agricultural Marketing Service 
which by Executive Order of February 23, 1942, became a part of the Agricultural Marketing Adminis- 
ration. 
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