482 
Acquirement  of  Drug  Habits. 
/Am.  Jour.  Phariru 
t     October,  1903. 
COCAINE  SAI/TS. 
I9OI    $176,948. 
1902  254,704. 
1903   199,826. 
Note. — The  imports  of  cocaine  salts  are  given  only  in  the  shape  of 
the  value  of  the  quantity  entered  at  the  Custom  Houses. 
There  is  an  increase  of  $77,7$6  in  the  value  of  cocaine  imported 
in  1902  over  that  for  1901,  of  $67,115  for  the  equivalent  of  the  nine 
months  of  1903  reported.  Averaging  $3  an  ounce  as  the  value  of 
the  cocaine,  this  gives  us  an  increased  importation  of  25,920  ounces 
in  1902  and  22,372  ounces  for  nine  months  of  1903 — a  fact  that 
speaks  volumes  in  itself. 
CRUDE  OPIUM. 
1901  491,448  pounds. 
1902 .  .  ■  548,673 
1903  •  •  338,937 
An  increase  of  57,225  pounds  111  1902  over  1901 ;  1903  data 
incomplete.  The  values  were  $660,627  for  the  portion  of  1903 
reported. 
SMOKING  OPIUM. 
1901  1 39, 5^  pounds. 
1902  ...   163,441  " 
1903  140,964  " 
There  was  an  increase  of  34,5 1 1  pounds  in  the  amount  of  smoking 
opium  imported  for  the  portion  of  1903  reported,  this  drug  seeming 
to  be  steadily  increasing  in  amount  consumed  here.  The  value  of 
the  smoking  opium  imported  for  nine  months  of  1903  was  $871,716! 
morphine  sai/ts. 
1 901  50,698  ounces. 
1902   .  38,002  " 
1903  ii9»697  " 
CHI^ORAI,. 
1901  '  .  .     4,485  pounds. 
1902  26,977  " 
1903  Not  yet  reported. 
We  are  unfortunate  in  not  having  a  report  on  the  importation  of 
coca. 
Legislation  is  the  important  factor  to  control  the  increasing  vice, 
and  from  the  tone  of  all  letters,  even  those  who  do  a  large  business 
in  this  line,  there  is  at  least  a  general  conviction  that  it  must  be 
