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LEAF IT TO ME
comes complete emancipation. Has a vend·
ing operator investigated this new location
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yet?
to date: This industry is one of the very
Cigsale Summary-Compilation of sales
few which has countered increasing labor
sheets reveals that Camels, Chesterfield and
and material costs with improved technique,
Lucky Strike increased their first-quarter
thereby maintaining a fifty-year record of
totals over 1945, with Philip Morris losing
no-price increase ___ Production did not
ground over the fiscal year. Here are the
wane at war's end; Diamond Match turns
figures: In aggregating a three-month total
out 1,125,000 wooden sticks per hour _ • .
of $144,839,749 in '46, R. J_ Reynolds To-
The U_ S. has the highest per capita rate
bacco Co.'s volume shot up 54.4 per cent
of match consumption in the world: 14 a
and showed a 13.8 per cent gain over the
day .•• Famous first words-"Don't strike last three months of 1945 when holiday
me or I'll get lit up," said the match.
business usually peak-highs volume . . .
Luckies sailed from 139.3 million to 161
Litue-known facts about a well known
million ..• Up, up, up: Liggett & Myers
country: During the war it was a legal
continue to ride a steadily rising curve.
offense for Australian civilians to have
1945 sales passed 1944 by twenty-five million
American cigarettes in their possession •.•
dollars. Their first quarter net in '46, $98,-
In the U. S_ A., 41 per cent of the popula-
211,181, was a substantial increase over the
tion smoke cigarettes . . _ In 1945 Great
Britain imported $200,000,000 worth of same period in '45 . . . Philip Morris
reached $185,200,000 during the fiscal year
manufactured tobacco from the United
of 1945 but fell to $178,600,000 in the fiscal
States .. _ Modernizing a famous old epi-
year concluded March 31, 1946.
gram: "Where there's smoke there's a cigar-
ette tax" _ .. Number of cig-vending opera-
It's a wonderful idea to give the veteran
tors in Massachusetts dropped from 99 to
a helping hand, but when you cut out some-
95 during the past year.
body else's pocket lining to do it-that's
carrying it too far_ In Illinois, the State
They're really steaming in Pennsylvania.
Legislature, in a mood of magnanimity,
Not the operators, jobbers or manufacturers
worked up a bill providing for payment of
-not even the public. It's the tobacco
a bonus to each Illinois vet. In order to
beds. Application of the steaming process
get the funds for their generous gesture,
is a new way to kill weed seeds which, in
the legislators proposed a tax on soft drinks
tum, kill soil germs which kill the tobacco
and a one-cent-per-pack addition to the
plant.
State cigarette levy. In voicing a booming
The era of woman suffrage has just com-
"No," Mayor Kelly suggested paying the
COIN
menced. After a long battle to prevent
bonus out of surplus funds and not burden-
MACHIN. school marms from smoking on the prem-
ing the already tax-laden business man.
REVIEW
ises, the New Jersey Board of Education
Cigstatistics: The annual war-time to-
finally approved the teachers' petition for a
bacco pro.duct consumption rate of three
special smoking room.
Originally the
billion dollars has spiralled to four billion
austere Men of Learning had forbidden all
since VJ Day, the U. S. Department of
smoking; then they relented sufficiently to
FOIT
Commerce reveals . . . North Carolina to-
allow indulgence in the boiler room. Now
JULY
bacco farmers received $66,000,000 more for
their 1945 crop than for the previous year
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. . . More sales, more taxes-more money
for the U. S. Treasury Department: cigar-
ette collections for April, 1946, totalled
The GP All Metal
$89,083,452.54 as against 59,901,179.52 for
April of the previous yeat _ .. Women are
HAND TRUCK
still your best customers, fellows. The fair
Will Solve Your Problems ' sex puffs 68 per cent of all cigs made, with
Stur dy, durable appliance truck with rub·
76 per cent of them smoking a pack a day
ber bumpers, weighs only 31 Ibs. All welded
... Which brings to mind a poem (?): A
steel tubular construction_ Stands 60" high
24" wide, has 4 ';' '' toe plate for loading:
pack a day keeps the vender happy and
Will carry 1500 Ibs. Unique skid rail pre·
gay.
vents jolting when moving truck down steps,
curbs. Ideal for moving cigarette machines,
Price control has been removed from the
phonographs, console s, e tc. PRICE ONLY
following tobacco products: imported cigar-
$34 .50 each .
ettes; Connecticut, Florida, and Georgia
shade-grown tobacco grown during the 1945
season; and the unsold portion of Mary-
land's '45 crop.
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Campus Kids Like "Big Five"
CHICAGO-A recent survey of the
CATD Research Department, during which
students of Northwestern University were
polled, indicates that the Big Five-Camels,
Lucky Strike, Chesterfield, Philip Morri's
and Old Gold-are increasing their dom-
inance over the college consumers and are
preferred by 92 per cent. Compared to a
similar poll conducted last March, the
major brands have added seven per cent to
their lead.
States' Cig Tax $164,200,000
WASHINGTON-State taxes on tobacco
products are in effect in 31 capitals and
their 1945 contribution to the kitty was
$164,200,000, Federation of Tax Administra-
tion figures reveal.
All states showed a gain over 1944, the
aggregate amounting to 8.3 per cent.
Changes in the levy-paying ranks found
Delaware being emancipated and Idaho
being added.
Tobacco Men Protest
Proposed Tax Increase
CHICAGO-Jobbers, operators and re-
tailers are up in arms over the three-cent
per pack tax proposed by the Special Ses-
sion of Illinois' 64th General Assembly.
The local trade formed a special com-
mittee to appear at a public hearing before
the House of Representatives and Senate
and presented the tobaccoist's side of the
picture.
These are the points the committee
stressed:
Estimated sales volume which would be
lost because of the increase is 25 per cent.
When the cigarette tax was first imposed
in 194J, Illinois' rate of per capita con-
sumption was 1725 per year, which was
nine per cent above the country's per capita
average. In 1945 the per capita rate
dropped to 1580, 23 per cent below the
United States average. Comparison of
figures indicates Illinois smokers are pur-
chasing taxless cigarettes elsewhere, as at-
tested by heavy mail order sales from
Indiana.
The effectiveness of the committee's
timely summation could not be determined
immediately; however, in the opinion of
qualified observers it scored heavily in pre-
senting a side of the picture which had not
received thorough consideration from the
measure's exponents.
Tobacco Production Down
WASHINGTON-Production of all types
of manufactured tobacco is trailing 1945,
Internal Revenue Department figures for
February reveal.
Acreage totals show 18,064,690 pounds
for February '46 as against 26,421,452
pounds last year, a drop of 31.63 per cent.
This makes the third straight month that
1946 lagged behind the previous year_
The following factors may be responsible:
Easing of tension after the war which de-
creased smoking; elimination of frantic
buyers who were trying to store huge stocks
in the face of shortage rumors; natural
tapering off following tbe sudden pyramid-
ing production period immediately after
the end of the war.
First Tobacco Imports
From Philippines Expected
WASHINGTON-First shipment of leaf
tobacco from the Philippine Islands is ex-
pected in the United States by the end of
the current month_ Although its size has
not yet been determined, local importers
believe it will be small.
Philippine export facilities are hampered
by lack of warehouse facilities, traceable
to the war and military occupation. Recon-
struction and expansion is now under way.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce anticipates that the Philippine
tobacco crop for this year will be 40 per
cent below pre-war yield. Principal grow-
ing regions are Cagayan Valley and Luzon
Provinces.
Besides exporting to the United States,
Philippine leaf is also shipped to Shanghai
and Spain.
Hew Cig Vending Firms
HARTFORD, Conn.-Notch two more
additions to the cigarette vending busi-
ness.
Veterans' Cigarette Vending Service, Inc.,
of Bridgeport, and U-Need-A-Pack Sales,
Inc., of New London are the latest new-
comers to Connecticut's cig field. Both
are incorporated for $50,000.
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There was a time when a fellow found
it difficult to buy a tire for his car; now
he can't buy attire for himself.