Tobacco ranks sixth in the value of U. S. field crops, fifth in U. S. exports and most of it goes up in smoke. Usually the crop is worth $250,000,000 but last year, with prices not far from rock bottom, it brought only $180,000,000. Processed into cigarets, cigars, snuff and quids, it is worth $1,000,000,000 annually, and its taxes provide the U. S. Government with its largest single item of miscellaneous revenue ($400,000,000 per year). The marketing of tobacco products is a triumph of modern salesmanship but...
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