duced chiefly in the South Atlantic States and in Kentucky and Ten- 

 nessee, whereas the cigar types are grown mainly in the north 

 Atlantic area and in Ohio and Wisconsin. Very little tobacco is 

 grown west of the Mississippi River. 



Probably no other factor has had as important an effect upon the 

 production of tobacco in the tri-State area and in the United States 

 during the last three decades as the change in consumption habits. 

 Not only has the consumption of tobacco as a whole increased steadily 

 since 1900, but within recent years several important changes have 

 occurred which have greatly influenced the relative quantity and im- 

 portance of the different types of tobacco produced. The production 

 and manufacturing, by quantity and by type, is the result of demand 

 or consumption habits. Marked advances in one branch of the to- 

 bacco industry has usually been attended by losses in other branches 

 of the industry. From 1900 to 1915 there was a relatively rapid in- 

 crease in the quantity of tobacco going into pipe tobacco, cigars, and 

 cigarettes at the expense of chewing and snuff tobacco. Added im- 

 petus was given to cigarette consumption by the World War. Prior 

 to 1914 the quantity of tobacco used for cigarettes was relatively un- 

 important, being less than 5 per cent of all leaf tobacco used in 

 manufacturing. In 1926 the percentage was 37.6 per cent. In other 

 words, more than eleven times as much leaf tobacco was used in 

 the manufacturing of cigarettes in 1926 as in 1909. 



Annual manufacture of cigarettes has increased so rapidly that by 

 1927 the quantity of tobacco used in cigarettes was nearly double 

 that used for cigars and more than equal to all that used for smoking, 

 chewing, and snuff. From a production of 16.870,000,000 cigarettes in 

 1914 the production increased to over 97,000,000,000 in 1927, an increase 

 of 476 per cent in 14 years. The per capita consumption of cigarettes 

 in the United States increased from 28 in 1900 to 172 in 1914 and to 

 838 for the 1928 fiscal year (0, p. 135). 3 The popularity of the ciga- 

 rette is increasing in foreign lands as well as in this country, whereas 

 the consumption of chewing tobacco is definitely on the decline. Con- 

 sumption of pipe tobacco, cigars, and snuff is stable, but is declining 

 if considered in relation to the increase in population. On the basis 

 of the 1910-1914 period (100), Figure 6 shows the trends of the 

 production of the various classes of tobacco products since 1897. 



FOREIGN TRADE 



Although a larger proportion of the United States production of 

 dark Kentucky and Tennessee, dark Virginia, and Maryland and 

 Ohio export tobacco is exported than of the flue-cured type, the latter 

 constitutes over half of the total exports of tobacco- During the 

 5-year period 1922-1927, 45.8 per cent of the production of the flue- 

 cured types was exported. From 1922 to 1927 the exports of flue- 

 cured tobacco increased from 180,000,000 pounds to 302,000,000 

 pounds. 



Some of the foreign countries are attempting to promote and en- 

 courage tobacco production in their States and colonies. These at- 

 tempts have proved more or less successful, at least temporarily, for 

 some of the dark tobaccos and, as a consequence, the foreign demand 



8 Reference is made by italic numbers in parentheses to Literature Cited, p. 151. 



