Thank Greg Pease for his research.
What would work better here is a graph, but lacking moisture analysis equipment, the chart will have to do. Actually, it's fairly easy to do the work with a good scale and an oven, but it's really time consuming, since you have to humidify samples, weigh them, then bake (to drive off the moisture) and weigh them again. Or, you could do it in reverse: start with bone dry tobacco and rehumidify, then weigh. Either way, it would be a good job for a research undergrad on work study, not a self-employed 50 year old.
I should note that there is a large difference in the feel of tobacco, between 12 and 15% MBW .
