CIGARETTE SMOKING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4635, 30 January 1894, Page 2

CIGARETTE SMOKING.

_ The annual report of the Oomniissioner of Internal Eevenue shows that 8,000,000,000 cigarettes hare boon made in the United States daring the fiscal year just ended, This ia au average of about fifty to each individual. The growth in the production of cigarette goes on year, by year, A deoade ago the number manufactured was far below 1,000,000,000. Like pretty much everything else that is done in that country, the manufacturing facilities are greatly inoreased by the adoption of machinery, Within the last few yms Jkyfcomli>:ful ~ machines for roakingligFettes hate been invented. One patterif will turn out at an average rate of 272 a minute. The patents of these devices Bro vastly valuable, One style, ffbioh may be' well desoribed for the Bake of i illustration, passed along an endless strip of paper, the width of which is just the length of a oigarette. The tobacco is fed from above into little] scales. They drop as soon as theyi have received the precise quantity! required, emptying their countentffj upon the strip of paper, whioh is rolled, chopped off with knives, and! glued neatly, all in an instant of time. Of course, a great many eimultane-| onsly, the machine counting them into the paokages, whioh are likewisj ] wrapped around them by contrivance made, by Russians and any machinery for lhe|pilcture'6f j cigarettes, the work allTeing done by I hand. French cigarettes are partiou* 1 larly mild, because- the tobacco ia steeped in water to make it so, _ The details of the manufacture of j cigarettes are kept, to a greater or less degree, a secret by the fflanufaox ! tiirere, eaoh of whom has his own pars" tioular combinations of tobaccos! None of the brands on the market ijl composed ofonelsindonly. Therecipo is not divulged outside of the firm, But this is not all. The original mix- 1 ture is merely a basis for artiGoial l flavoring, To begin' with, various j essential oils are added, The. list | of these includes roso geranium, vanilla bean, tonka bean and lioo» rice root, These ingredients are added after the tobacco has been chopped into shreds in readiness to be rolled into cigarettes. Finally the particular drug ohosen, in the shape of liquid solution, is sprayed dh.tho material with a atomiser, The quantity employed ie very carefully judged, so many drops being allowed for eaoh / cigarette, There is no doubt that opium, valerian, and cannabis indica ; are utilised to the jugest extent, Each manufacturer:Aibe said to create a special druYnabjt among those who smoke his brand, so that they are not satisfied with any other