Year. Population. Amount Amount per consumed. Head. Kilogrammes. Grammes. 1815 29,250,000 8,981,403 307 1826 31,673,853 11,595,084 366 1831 32,731,256 11,071,088 338 1841 34,018,715 16,461,934 484 1851 35,546,919 19,718,089 555 1864 37,133,424 28,019,803 755 1866 37,807,203 30,627,663 810 1872 35,844,414 27,031,000 754 1876 36,643,087 31,188,846 851 The amount consumed in the different departments varies very much. Snuff-taking is most practised in Oise, Seine Inférieure, Eure, and Eure-et-Loir, at the maximum rate of 375 _grm._ per head; and least in the departments of Doubs, Pyrénées Orientales, Nord, Haut Rhin, and Haute Savoie, where the average is but 100 _grm._ In smoking, however, there is rather a reverse order of things, the Nord, Haut-Rhin, and Pas de Calais consuming at the rate of 2 _kilo._ per head, while the minimum is found in Haute Savoie, Cantal, Corrèze, Creuse, Aveyron, Dordogne, Lot, and Lozère. Ten departments only consume tobacco above the average, while 70 are actually below it. If all France smoked the same quantity as do the people of Nord, Haut-Rhin, and Pas de Calais, the consumption for the whole country would be 73,286,174 _kilo._ instead of 31,000,000; and _vice versâ_ it would be only 6,265,968 _kilo._ if calculated according to the average of Lozère, which is only at the rate of 171 _grm._ per head. The department of the Nord, in 1884, had 449 _hectares_ (of 2·47 acres) under tobacco, the yield of which was 1,168,206 _kilo._ _Germany._—The total area of land engaged in growing tobacco in Germany in 1878 was about 44,520 acres; nearly two-thirds of this total was distributed among Rhenish Bavaria, Baden, S. Hesse, and Alsace-Lorraine. The total consumption of tobacco in the German empire in that year was 2,196,000 cwt. The home production was 596,776 cwt., the remainder being imported.