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Table 119. Tobacco industry in Sweden.1
Average for the years [-Factories.-] {+Fac- tories.+} Production. In Quintals. Total production. Imports. QuinUk
Cigars, » Packet Tobacco. Hoi) and cake Tobacco. Snnfl. Quintals. Valne. Thousands of kronor. Leaf 1
Mannlsc-tobacco. | tans.
1871/75.. 103 4,698 4,159 i 8,737 28,423 46,017 8,872 31,915 562
1876/80.. 107 5,512 4,825 9,327 32,191 51,855 10,778 35,125 1^42
1881/85.. 105 4,229 4,780 10,007 32,812 51,828 10,831 32,784 1,022
1886/90.. 92 2,916 2,780 11,868 35,084 52,648 10,316 34,206 1,071 I
1891/95.. 91 5,011 3,797 10,791 39,331 58,930 11,994 34,029 1,064
1896/00.. 96 6,940 4,058 8,821 45,847 || 65,666 15,045 36,604 1,737 !
In 1900.. 101 7,463 3,846 8,502 48,869 f 68,680 I 15,714 37,190 2,042
elusive privilege of importing tobacco, and subsequently the trade ui
tobacco was alternately free or in the hands of companies, until 16*5,
when it was made entirely free.
The earliest tobacco-factory seems to have been founded in Stockholm in
1660; it was followed by several others, both in the capital and in the country.
Kockums Factory in Malmö and Swartz’ in Norrköping date from about 1750.
The cultivation of tobacco on a more extensive scale also began about 1750, and,
in this branch as in so many others, the celebrated pioneer of industry, Jonai
Alströmer, was to the fore. About 1770, the tobacco crop was estimated as
amounting to 7,000 quintals (à 1"9 7 cwts.), that is to say, almost as much as at the
present day. The annual crop in the period 1896/1900 is given at 7,745 quintals,
a figure, however, probably rather below than above reality. An increase has not
been noticed during the last years, — rather the reverse, the averages for the
preceding five-year period (1891/95) being 10,837 quintals. The cultivation of tobacco
in Sweden is exempt from any excise.
The cultivation of tobacco, instead of spreading throughout the country, has
rather tended to become concentrated in certain districts, notably in Skåne and
round Stockholm. As Swedish tobacco has a peculiar aroma, different from that
of superior foreign brands, it cannot to any large extent be mixed with them.
Such mixture only occurs for the cheaper varieties of cigars and snuff.
Tobacco is consumed in various ways: as pipe tobacco, cigars, cigarettes,
chewing-tobacco, and snuff. Pipe-tobacco occurs either cut or in complete leaves,
chewing-tobacco is usually twisted and sold in rolls. Of snuff the greater quantity
is stated to be used for chewing. We have previously mentioned that the
consumption of snuff is in Sweden unusually large.
The manufacture of tobacco is carried on in the large towns, more
especially in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö; in those three towns
there were 42 factories in li)00, manufacturing tobacco to the value of
9,727,000 kronor, that being 62 % of the value of the tobacco
manufacture of the whole country (15-7 million kronor that same year). —
Imported tobacco comes principally from America, by way of Bremen.
It is either of the heavy type, such as Kentucky tobacco, or light, such
as Virginia tobacco. The total value of the imports of tobacco (leaf and
manufactured), in 1900, was 7-7 9 million kronor. The customs duty for
these quantities amounted to 4*4 6 million kronor.
1 A quintal = 197 cwts. A krona = 110 shilling or 0 268 dollar. — * Including
cigarettes. For the years 1897/1900, on the supposition that 200 cigars weigh 1 kilogr.
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