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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 1, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 14

What We Pay for Tobacco.—

A writer in Blackwood’s Magazine computes the whole amount of tobacco grown on the face of the globe at not less than 4,000,000,000 pounds. The price paid for tobacco by consumers, including all varieties, must exceed 25 cents a pound. A curious estimate makes the expenditures consequent on tobacco-using, direct and indirect, in a single century, to equal all the property on the earth. If 50 cents a day be spent by each devotee, the 300,000,000 in the world would waste $3,000,000,000,000 in a single generation.