AMERICAN TOBACCO TYPES, USES, AND MARKETS 115 
These considerations do not invalidate per capita consumption 
statistics but suggest a reservation in their use, for reasons which 
may be of increasing importance in the future. The declining birth 
rate, if the present trend be long continued, seems to portend an 
ultimate decline in total population, the far-reaching consequences 
of which are likely to include marked changes in the production and 
consumption of tobacco. 
Table 36 shows the annual consumption of manufactured tobacco 
products per capita at 5-year intervals from 1900 to 1930 and annually 
to 1940.” 
TABLE 36.—Per capita consumption of tobacco products in the United States, specified 
years 
Small c . : 
Large P : Ciga- | Chewing | Smoking _ 
Year ! cigars mone Cigars? | rettes? | tobacco | tobaccos| S2utt Total 
Number | Number | Pounds | Pounds | Pounds | Pounds | Pounds | Pounds 
1900 Ro eee Be ee 70. 5 34.9 1e33 .14 2. 64 1. 06 0. 20 5. 37 
1 RY 0} Fossett bee oe een ene cat 82.3 40. 4 1. 59 Alt) 2. 49 1. 52 5749) 6. 00 
LOLQ ees eee 76.7 93. 7 1. 59 . 34 2.71 1. 76 . 34 6. 74 
LOT Rae See 71.4 180. 6 1. 58 . 67 2. 36 1.77 .33 6. 71 
TIL) 9 Sei ee eae, Sg 79.8 418.8 1. 87 1o6 2. 05 36 . 34 7.18 
O25 Se ee ee Se 60. 3 696. 1 1.39 2.07 1.79 1.45 .33 7.03 
LOSO Rss See a 50. 1 972. 0 Ie Iz 2.73 1.35 1. 32 508) 6. 90 
VOR hs ee ee 45.3 914. 2 1.08 2. 58 1.18 1. 46 og 6. 62 
OS 2Bet ee eS eee 37.5 828.9 . 89 2202 97 1. 53 29 6. 00 
TES Se es eats ee 36. 5 888. 7 . 89 2.03 . 90 152 29 6.13 
GS See se I ay fa a 38. 4 992. 0 . 94 2. 87 .91 52 . 29 6. 53 
TOS 5 aie oe 39.5 1, 055. 0 . 96 3. 01 . 89 1.49 . 28 6. 63 
OSG Re aaa ee 42.0 ME CPA 7 1.03 3. 40 . 90 1. 51 . 29 7.13 
1 Ys (= ee Se ce 42.8 1, 258. 2 1. 04 3. 55 . 89 1. 44 . 28 7. 20 
LOB Rhos ree Ser ie 40.9 1, 256. 9 97 3. 54 . 82 11683 . 29 Weello 
O39 Wee. ee ee ee 42.0 1,315.6 . 99 3041 78 1.53 . 29 7. 30 
1940 aes eee ee Ske 42.2 1, 369.7 .99 3. 86 Sth 3 . 29 7.45 
1 Available data 1900-1905 do not include tax-paid products from the Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico 
and are for the fiscal year beginning July; 1910-38 data include tax-paid products from the Philippine Islands 
and Puerto Rico and are for the calendar year. In the former group, January population was used, 
whereas in the latter group July population was used to determine the per capita consumption. 
2 Pounds of cigars and cigarettes represent unstemmed equivalent of tobacco used in the manufacture of 
these products, as reported in the annual reports of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Both large and 
small cigars and large and small cigarettes are included. j i 
3 Tax-paid withdrawals of manufactured tobacco have been separated into chewing tobacco and smoking 
tobacco in proportion to production of these two products. Scrap chewing tobacco, which was not reported 
separately prior to 1931, has been estimated from 1900 to 1930. 
4 Preliminary. 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Compiled from tax-paid withdrawals in the United States (including 
tax-paid withdrawals of tobacco products from the Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico) reported in monthly 
statements by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and population from reports of the Bureau of the Cen- 
sus. 
EFFECT OF TOBACCO-CONSUMING HABITS ON GEOG- 
MEE OF TOBACCO” PRODUCTION 
Tobacco-consuming habits ** are marked by great stability in the 
sense that they are not subject to sudden change. In the long time 
sense they are relatively unstable, partly as a result of changing pref- 
erences of those already numbered among the consuming class, and 
perhaps in larger part because of rising generations whose preferences 
differ from those of the dwindling numbers in the older generations. 
*3 This table is based on manufactures. Because of exports and imports, a slight error is introduced in 
using these figures as measures of consumption, which is more accurately reflected by the sales of internal 
revenue stamps. Statistics of the latter, however, are not available over a sufficient period of years for the 
present purpose. The slight errors involved are believed to be reasonably constant from year to year, and 
the computations of per capita consumption are believed to be comparable. 
*4 For the purpose of this discussion the term ‘‘consuming habits’’ is used broadly to include not only 
the preferences of Americans but of foreign peoples which provide a market for American tobacco. 
