Tobacco Documents Online

; TfiMES Roanoke, Va. July 22, 1962 7-`Ainerican consumers s pie n t' about 7% billion dollars last year for tobaccQ products. GAZETPE Kalamazoo, Mich. July 23, 19b2. . Smokers who'move from, one cominu rn t,v'to another f'requent ly are more likely to develop lung cancer than their less mo- bile brothers. ~Y35 MERCU San Jose, Calif. July 24, 1962 ret Hub FtALEIGH -- one - thircl' of the eig=ts made iri the Uniteq• Sta tes come frer.:, three- priincipal North C3r- crlinh. bities: 3a--L NEWS & COURIER Charlieston, S.C'.July 29, 1962 ~ MORE SMOKQ118 Cigarette production and use increased all over th. world in 1960: reports Torbeco News. Some 2,227 bilhon cigarettes were manufactured last year, up s per cent over 19'a9; Miscellaneous Items of Interest, material continued to gain attention. LINIi©N Springfield, M$ss. J4y 31, 1962 The U. S. eacpl)rtle~:>tK1.8' miil- ~: lim pounds of' unmanufactured• loh'j~in the ca7endar, year. 1 RAPMa ©n,Ga.1 0!0 SJ 3 ~ /_) ~'C1 ~ July 30, 1962 Warehouse receipts fnr t,oba~co became ttie first 'paper money ' in the American colonies, aad was used' to pay taxes. Teachers and clergymen were paid in tobacco. A wedding ceremony cost 200, pounds of leaf, ai funeral service 400 pounds. ~ l',t03`r~ RECOFiD Hackensack,, N.J. July 20, 1962 TDbwco products cross retail counf errs more often than any- tihing else except monev; ~~.. 3 I Db3.~_39' NEWS Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. August 2, 1962 ,'lUG.1f;l:T 1111\Iih," ~ r. _ --~ j"anteriivan Glx in'~ 1 emune u:~>(r -vipar ri, aF tnunm• diu•in~ 15'orhl 11 ai U. This was the most stlble. G1ITrn,.F-inFrailcP, lullrnTan\• and Italle- frlr t%rn coarm aft•v V. E lDav t~.35 ~?~ `], r7 i~ ~ AY NEWS GILOBE Alnarilloy Texas July 22, 1962 1 WOMEN WORK TOBACCO NEW YQRK'- Women outnum- ber the men engaged in tobaecoo manufacturing. The figures'vary,s depending on the season, but womeni make up more than half'f and sometimes as much as so0 nr.-rrh- nftihr fnlol E'VENING SUid' Baltimore, Md. July 26, 1962 ~t r y •i:K`ir ~"; rl L{ - obacrp Buying lm 11.S. Chicago--Last y ea*' Americans bought more thblr bos+p00,0pp,o0o 1 .:` cigarettes, 7,1r;,tN~,,I>p0 cigars, 75;1I0e,00n pounds of smolmR to-'„ bacco, 65,0otl,p0o' pounds of' cltew-';-~- ing tobacco and 34,00000 pot~ndn q of sr,ufL NEWS=T~I& ~ ~ Tacoma, Wash. July 18, 1962 'Some 19 tubac -gr.oeving ' na- ~tions have Issis'@3special posta<•e , stamps honoring tobacco. The :tJnited, States Is one of' the fewv totll~cco countries (tobacco is our ' fourth lar¢est agricultural cash rrr,1-.1) thqt has not done so. ~. 9 3.5 I JOURNAL Alberquerque,i N. Mex * July 23, 192 2 t The first Englishman to smoke tobacco was believed to' have bean Ralph Lane. the first governor of Virginia. 3 3 ,5 3 r-) DISPATCH Union City, N.J. July 19, 1962 A obacco.,ceedi can produce a plant r million times its own weight in a per:rd of five month, '• , DISP~ t 3. York, Pa. July 19, 1962 TOBI#CC0 SHOp OLDEST WIDTS'r'ON'-SA.L,EM, N. C.-Amer- 'ieats' oldest tobacco shop Is be- .liieved to be the Miksch, Tobacco Shop here, built in 1771. STANh,EY' NEWS & PRESS Albemasl•e, N,C. July 13,_1962 ; Britons bought 260;8D0;00iU Roundi; iof t¢ a C`g, products durirp lsl'' ~ TrrT