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® a 0 e PAUL BUNYAN's FIVE-FOOT PIPE ST124 ADDS TO WISCONSIN's TOBACCO LCRE ; ' .. Washington, D C - How tall was the legendary Paul Bunyan? It depends on whose statistics you believe, according to a new booklet, "Wiscoasin and Tobacco." ~k ,~ One group of experts figured he was 50 feet t'all. This statistic came wa from a sober lumberjack who swore he saw Paul cleaning his pipe with a five- K foot pole. The pole was just long enough to go through the pipe stem. At - 'that time, a man's height was figuredlat 10 times the length of his pipe stem. So Paul had to be 50 feet tall. Other experts disagreed. They knew it required a full-time scoop shovel, to keep Paul's bowl filied'with tobacco. Such a bowl woulid need : . . . •. . more than a five-foot stem, they figured. This meant Paul was taller than a smokers -- all out of the woods to testify. Ir: 'other interesting facts Among them: ~ . '`ilisconsin ;~ . cigarettes, supplied through some But of , ~~t~"° ~ ~~ ~ ~ :: ~. ~~'fi+~ _ . -mere 50 feet. . The controversy probably won't be the Tobacco Institute's new booklet contains t'hem more reliable than the Paul Bunyan story. settled until PauliBunyan himself comes last year bought more than 428 million 40,000 Wisconsin outlets. + ~. a man, packs of using a . Estimated wholesale value of tobacco products distributed in the state last year was about $90~million -- for cigarettes alone, $75 million. Wisconsin's tax yield from cigarettes was more than $135 million during the ten years ending June 30, 1959. Wisconsin smokers pay a state tax.of five pents a pack, plus the federal tax of eight cents. The booklet is available from The Tobaceo Institute, Inc., 910 17th Street,. N.W., Washington 6, D.C. It is the sixth publication in the Institute's Tobacco History Series. r2 r rf *aF „

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