Water in Tobacco

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 24, 7 August 1886, Page 4

Water in Tobacco

Som« startling statements with reference to tne..adu,lte.l-ation of tobacco were made by "Mr 'AacfaVlane in the House of Cosuuiou^ ' -recently. "The excessive use of moisture contained in manufactured tobacco has loag • been,, a subject" of complaint; but "the : extent to which the practice & carried is far from being geuorally reaKsedv- Of some samples of birdseye tobacco that Mr Macfarlane caused to. be analysed, N©. 1 sample, at os per lb, contained from 5 to 8 per oent. of waier ; No. 2, atf^s 8d; from; 10 to 14 per cent. ; No. 3, atSsilOJU from 21 to 26 per cent. ; No 4, at 3s 4d, from 40 to 45 per cent.; N« . 3, at^B-2d,-from 45 to 50 per cent. ; auu No. 6 at 38 Id per lb, c»nt»ined 'fipm 50 to 60 pcr o c«HitJ of ■ water. Thesejthree lowest qualitias represent tbrea-fifths of the whoian&hjsgcp' consumed in Great , Britain, and 'almost exclusively ; that trhich is smaked-by-the working classes. It is sold.Hb.s4 > r > ajfc ■ ounce, or 4s per lb ; but the consumer only ; gets 50 per cent. of th« art^ct^JEqr which He pays his money. There caiinOT'l)e J 'a r doubt (observes the ♦St James' Budget') that this excessive moistening "of "tobjicco for the purpose of increasing'i^C^eight'iir sale is furious to h«althV ri ßatnp-i6bacco -frequently has an effect upon those who smoke it which is far from- comfortable, and is not produced bjitot»ea»ui W less moist condition. Hip "..K.i'.! f : "'-' ■■ "' '

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