expensiveness of the habit of using tobacco is no small objection
to it. Let the smoker estimate the expense of thirty years' use of
cigars, on the principle of annual interest, which is the proper method,
and he might be startled at the amount. Six cents a day, according to
the Rev. Mr. Fowler's calculation, would amount to $3,529 30 cents; a
sum which would be very useful to the family of many a tobacco consumer
when his faculties of providing for them have failed.

Eighty thousand dollars' worth of cigars, it was estimated, were
consumed in the city of New York in 1810; at that rate the present
annual consumption would amount to more than _two hundred thousand
dollars_. The statement of Rev. Dr. Abbot, in his Letters from Cuba,
in 1828, already alluded to, is, that the consumption of tobacco,
in that Island, is immense. The Rev. Mr. Ingersoll, who passed the
winter of 1832-3 in Havana, expresses his belief that this is not an
overstatement, he says, "call the population 120,000; say half are
smokers; this, at a bit a day (i.e. 12-1/2 cents) would make between
seven and eight thousand dollars. But this is too low an estimate, since
not men only but women and children smoke, and many at a large expense."
He says, that "the free negro of Cuba appropriates a bit (i.e. 12-1/2
cents) of his daily wages, to increase the cloud of smoke that rises
from the city and country." This, in thirty years, would amount to
$7,058 72, a respectable estate for a negro, or even for a white man.

The Rev. O. Fowler, from considerable
attention to the statistics of tobacco
consumption in the United States,
estimates the annual cost at $10,000,000
The time lost by the use of it, at 12,000,000
The pauper tax which it occasions, at 3,000,000
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$25,000,000

This estimate I must believe to be considerably below the truth. It has
been estimated, that the consumption of tobacco in this country is eight
times as great as in France, and three times as great as in England, in
proportion to the population.

The habit of using tobacco is uncleanly and impolite. It is uncleanly
from the foul odor, the muddy nostril, and darkly-smeared lip it
confers, and from the encouragement it gives to the habit of spitting,
which, in our country, would be sufficiently common and sufficiently
loathsome without