TYPES OF TO TOBACCO:
Aromatic Fire-cured, it is cured by smoke from open fires. In the United States, it is grown in northern middle
Tennessee, central Kentucky and in Virginia. Fire-cured tobacco grown
In Kentucky and Tennessee are used in some chewing tobaccos, moist snuff, some cigarettes, and as a condiment in
pipe tobacco blends. Another fire-cured tobacco is Latakia and
Is produced from oriental varieties of N. Tabacum. The leaves are cured and smoked over smoldering fires of local
Hardwoods and aromatic shrubs in Cyprus and Syria.
Brightleaf tobacco, Brightleaf is commonly known as "Virginia tobacco", often regardless of which state they are
planted. Prior to the American Civil War, most tobacco grown in
The US was fire-cured dark-leaf. This type of tobacco was planted in fertile lowlands, used a robust variety of leaf, and
was either fire cured or air cured. Most Canadian
Cigarettes are made from 100% pure Virginia tobacco.
Burley tobacco, is an air-cured tobacco used primarily for cigarette production. In the U.S., burley tobacco plants are
started from palletized seeds placed in polystyrene trays
Floated on a bed of fertilized water in March or April.
Cavendish is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. The processing and the cut
are used to bring out the natural sweet taste in the tobacco.
Cavendish can be produced out of any tobacco type but is usually one of, or a blend of Kentucky, Virginia, and Burley
and is most commonly used for pipe tobacco and cigars.
Criollo tobacco is a type of tobacco, primarily used in the making of cigars. It was, by most accounts, one of the
Original Cuban tobaccos that emerged around the time of Columbus.
Dokham, is a tobacco of Iranian origin mixed with leaves, bark, and herbs for smoking in a midwakh.
Oriental tobacco, is a sun-cured, highly aromatic, small-leafed variety (Nicotiana tabacum) that is grown in Turkey,
Greece, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. Oriental tobacco is
Frequently referred to as "Turkish tobacco", as these regions were all historically part of the Ottoman Empire. Many of
the early brands of cigarettes were made mostly or entirely
Of Oriental tobacco; today, its main use is in blends of pipe and especially cigarette tobacco (a typical American
cigarette is a blend of bright Virginia, burley and Oriental).
Perique, A farmer called Pierre Chenet is credited with first turning this local tobacco into the Perique in 1824 through
the technique of pressure-fermentation. Considered the
Truffle of pipe tobaccos, it is used as a component in many blended pipe tobaccos, but is too strong to be smoked pure.
At one time, the freshly moist Perique was also chewed,
But none is now sold for this purpose. It is typically blended with pure Virginia to lend spice, strength, and coolness to
the blend.
Shade tobacco, is cultivated in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Early Connecticut colonists acquired from the
Native Americans the habit of smoking tobacco in pipes and began
Cultivating the plant commercially, even though the Puritans referred to it as the "evil weed". The industry has
weathered some major catastrophes, including a devastating
Hailstorm in 1929, and an epidemic of brown spot fungus in 2000, but is now in danger of disappearing altogether,
Given the value of the land to real estate speculators.
White Burley, In 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted Red Burley seeds he had purchased, and found
that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look. The
Air-cured leaf was found to be more mild than other types of tobacco.
Wild Tobacco, is native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, and parts of South America. Its botanical name
Is Nicotiana rustica.
Y1 is a strain of tobacco that was cross-bred by Brown & Williamson to obtain an unusually high nicotine content. It
became controversial in the 1990s when the United States
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used it as evidence that tobacco companies were intentionally manipulating the
nicotine content of cigarettes.
