Artificial Tobacco

[smooth]

Came across this bit of info on another smoking site:
There is such a thing as "artificial" tobacco!! It is made from long, wide sheets of cigarette paper which is sprayed with "juice" that is rendered from boiled down floor sweepings, scrap tobacco, molded tobacco, stale returned cigarettes, and added chemicals. The paper is then shredded to the same size as the shredded tobacco. It is primarily used in commercially produced cigarettes. Some pipe tobacco producers include the "all natural tobacco" statement to let the smoker know that the tobacco does not contain any of this "artificial" tobacco.

 

[baronsamedi]

Holy crap! Is that legal? 8O

 

[jaysin]

Never heard of this thanks for the info and heads up.

 

[nsfisher]

That is just scary, wish you hadn't told me that. Yuk

 

[igloo]

And now you know why I roll my own cigarettes .

 

[logandow]

that sounds terrible

 

[foxinabox]

Instantly confirmed by your first puff from any prefabricated cigarette. Don't forget the carpet-glue tainted FSC tubes, too. These evil impostors give tobacco its bad name.

 

[tiltjlp]

Sheet Tobacco has been used to make cigarettes for years, probably decades.

 

[juni]

Any links to verify this? It sounds...fishy.

 

[lonestar]

Its absolutely true. Google sheet tobacco. The other thing they add to commercial cigarettes (Marlboro, Camel etc) is puff tobacco. Just like popcorn but a chemical process that blows the tobacco up to 3-4 times its normal size. I also roll my own with Daughters & Ryan, better than any brand I've ever smoked but then its 100% real tobacco and modeled after the great old blends.

 

[judcole]

Another reason to only buy good quality tobacco. Who knows what is in some of those low-end bulks? ::

 

[glpease]

Came across this bit of info on another smoking site:
There is such a thing as "artificial" tobacco!! It is made from long, wide sheets of cigarette paper which is sprayed with "juice" that is rendered from boiled down floor sweepings, scrap tobacco, molded tobacco, stale returned cigarettes, and added chemicals. The paper is then shredded to the same size as the shredded tobacco. It is primarily used in commercially produced cigarettes. Some pipe tobacco producers include the "all natural tobacco" statement to let the smoker know that the tobacco does not contain any of this "artificial" tobacco.

Sheet tobacco is certainly out there, used by the cigarette industry and by makers of some cheap cigars. But, it's not quite what this would make it seem to be. It's basically reclaimed tobacco, tobacco cutoffs, dust from the cutter, and so on, and when it's used, at least in the cigarette world, it's used in small percentages. The reclaimed tobaccos are ground, made into a pulp, like paper, then cut and blended with first-run tobacco when the cigarettes are being made. Additionally, there's something known as CRS, cut rolled stems, that are used as filler. Usually, tobacco is made from the lamina, the thin leafy parts, and the stems are discarded. Some companies try to save money by using some of that stem. (And, some of the big European and UK pipe tobacco producers have used it, as well. The fabled Balkan Sobranie, for instance, in its later incarnations contained about 5% CRS in the formulae I've seen. Another reason to support small, boutique blending houses that are run by tobacco people who care about the product, not by accountants who care about the bottom line. Just sayin'.)
Some of the ultra-cheap cigars are produced with a homogenized "wrapper," that same paper-like reconstituted sheet.
I'm not defending it. I don't like the stuff, would never use it, and don't want to smoke it, but it's not quite as bad as "cigarette paper sprayed with juice" makes it sound.

 

[spartan]

Thanks for the clarification Mr. Pease. I'm going to show this to every cig smoker in America.
Bwahahaha! :twisted:

 

[chops]

Wow. How do we know what tobaccos have this stuff so we can avoid them?

 

[vegasblue]

You can usually see it under a strong magnifier or a microscope. Ive actually done that with a few really cheap cigarettes and it is just horrible how little tobacco is in there!

 

[spartan]

It's all still tobacco... it's just recycled.

 

[igloo]

Please define low-end bulks . :nana:

 

[lordnoble]

Please define low-end bulks .

Obviously, he's talking about any blend from C&D, Hearth & Home, Sterling, or House of Calabash... [/sarcasm] :rofl:
-Jason

 

[shawn]

Stop the madness!?!??!!#!@$!%!#!?

 

[smooth]

Seems to me that once again, as so often in our current lives, we find out again about something we all really dislike. So we voice our displeasure, remain ignored by the powers that be, and move on.