Now you can have a piece of Danish with your morning pipe.
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It'd surprise me unless very careless harvesting methods are used. Leaves are cut then don't touch the ground, then hung to dry.
Back in the day, we would cut the stalks and let them lay in the ground until we got a row complete and then someone would then stack them and drag them to the barn to be hung. Maybe on a small scale, like in my own backyard garden can one gather the lugs and clip leaves, but on a large scale tobacco farm, you harvest the stalks. But, you wouldn't find manure in the field, unless it was some freak weirdness.
Jessicac hasn't stated, but is this about vegan concerns, or just wondering out loud?
If it is a vegan thing, then you're going to find honey in many casings. You'd have to do some super sleuthing to avoid that. If it is just a "what in the world" could be in cigarettes thing, then it could be anything.
I went to go visit a cigarette factory back when I was a kid, and had an uncle working for Phillip Morris. They would crush all juices out of the tobacco, until it was just cellulose, and then mix all of the juices together and add flavorings and chemicals, and then re-hydrate the pulp. Anything, literally anything could have been added.