AMERICAN TOBACCO TYPES, USES, AND MARKETS WE IUT 
(3) In the manufacture of most chewing and smoking tobacco, the 
manufactured weights materially exceed the weight of unstemmed 
leaf tobacco used in manufacture. Snuff, on the contrary, weighs less 
than the tobacco and stems used in its production, though more than 
the leaf component. 
(4) The figures represent tobacco used regardless of type and include 
leaf of both domestic and foreign growth. 
Because of the extraneous materials, the weight of chewing, smoking, 
and snuff-tobacco products considered as a group exceeds the weight 
of the unstemmed tobacco used in their manufacture by from 20 to 
30 percent. 
There is no rule by which the respective quantities of chewing and 
smoking tobacco shown in table 35 can be accurately converted into 
leaf-tobacco equivalents. Practically all the materials reported in 
table 34 under the heads of licorice, sugar, and other materials are used 
in the manufacture of these tobaccos and relatively little of them in 
snuff. The actual quantity of tobacco present in chewing and smoking 
products, if stemming losses are deducted, appears to be slightly less 
than 60 percent of the total weight of the manufactured product. 
The proportion of flavoring and sweetening material varies for dif- 
ferent products. It is probably greatest in plug chewing tobacco, and 
least, if not entirely absent, in granulated smoking tobacco. There 
is some basis for assuming, also, that the percentage of extraneous 
materials used in manufacture is influenced by tobacco prices. That 
is, the percentage appears to be lowest in years when prices of leaf 
tobacco are very low, and greatest when tobacco prices are high. 
A fairly accurate estimate can be made of the quantity of leaf to- 
bacco used in snuff. Although manufacturers’ formulas vary widely, 
on the average the materials used are approximately as follows: 
Pounds 
Unstemmedi tobacco. 28 2a. 29s aa eo ee ye 76 
PNOWACCORSLCTINS He ape siye Peres ae be eee eee 21 
Licorice, sugar, and other materials___________-_ 3 
One hundred pounds of these materials will produce approximately 
80.8 pounds of snuff; the quantity is smaller if the snuff is dry, and 
larger if the snuff is moist. On the average, 100 pounds of un- 
- stemmed tobacco is used in the manufacture of 106 pounds of snuff 
and this figure provides a fairly accurate index for interpreting reports 
of snuff manufactured annually in terms of leaf tobacco consumed, 
that is, total pounds of snuff divided by 1.06 may be taken to represent 
leaf tobacco so used. 
Quantities oF Topacco Propucts MANUFACTURED 
The annual production of tobacco products in the United States 
from 1880 to 1939 is shown in table 35. Although there is some export 
and import trade in these products, the volume in proportion to the 
total is so small that these figures are approximately indicative of con- 
sumption. More precise statistics of consumption are afforded by 
“withdrawals,” that is, the sales of the internal revenue stamps 
affixed to all packages or containers of tobacco products sold in the 
United States or its possessions. 
