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...years ago, U.S. cigaret production amounted to about 17 billion annually. For the coming year, production was, last week, estimated to reach 73 billion by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair, who stated that, this year, the tobacco industry would yield more revenue to the Government than all sources of internal revenue prior to 1914, or about $345,000,000. Tobacco taxes amount to $3.12 per capita. The U.S. leads in the production of cigarets, and the Governmental revenue derived from them. It is second only to Belgium in per capita consumption...
Over the same ten years, however, cigaret production and consumption has also increased in other countries; in Japan production has grown from 7 to 23 billion, and in Germany from 12 to 23 billion...
...established many records. Marathon money went to one M. Lenoble, who made a pipeful last 51 min. 11 3/5 sec. (without going out); speed prize to M. Bibendum (President of the Fat Men's Club) who, with perspiration-beaded temples, finished a pipe in 1 min. 10 sec. Cigaret-smoking contests for speed, for endurance, were won by M. François Fratellini (member of a famed clown family) whose performances were: 1 min. 3 sec., 38 min. Cigar records were...
...dark young man, attired in pajamas of kingfisher-blue silk, smoking, with mannered nonchalance, a brown cigaret, was reclining among the pillows of a luxurious seabed. He responded amiably to their questions. Native American music . . . what did they mean by that? Most people, of course, meant the banal, monotonous ki-yiing of the American Indians?an absurd misconception. Indian music came from Asia. It is in no respect native. The music the rhythms of which are implicit in the movement of modern U. S. life has never been written. . . . Will jazz be its medium? . . . Perhaps...
...Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth and loose lips of Mammon. The cigaret has become a stock in- gredient of feminism and neurasthenia...