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Tobacco
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of a tobacco plant. Tobacco has many various uses: in organic pesticides, in some medications or for personal consumption. The latter use includes smoking, chewing, snuffing and dipping whereas the former has several subcategories too. Tobacco can be rolled into cigarettes, cigars, stuffed into pipes or hand-rolled. In its native Americas tobacco has usually been used by shamans or medicine men as an entheogen (a psychoactive substance) during religious ceremonies or rituals. When it was brought to Europe, tobacco became a popular trade item (like salt and spices) and as a recreational drug. The popularization of this product gave birth to tobacco plantations in the American South and later to the whole cigarette making industry. The cultivation of tobacco plants is quite similar to other cultures: first, seeds are sown in hotbeds prevent insect attacks and later planted in the fields. It's an annual crop harvested mechanically or manually, and stored for curing (slow oxidation and reduction of carotenoids). Oxidation and reduction give the tobacco its smoothness.
Wild tobacco – grows naturally in Mexico, southwestern US, and some parts of South America. It"s commonly used in production of tobacco dust or pesticides.
Aromatic fire-cured - this robust type of tobacco is cure over small fires. It is grown in Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia and used mostly for chewing, snuff, some brands of cigarettes and as a condiment in pipe blends.
Latakia – another type of fire-cured tobacco grown in Cyprus and Syria. It's cured over smoldering fires and used in pipe blends.
Brightleaf or Virginia tobacco - invented accidentally in 1839 by growing tobacco on infertile sandy soil and using charcoal to fire-cure it to meet the demand for lighter more aromatic tobacco. After the American Civil War the market for Virginia tobacco grew from local (Virginia, North Carolina) to national.
Burley – light, air-cured tobacco used mainly in cigarettes. It's produced in an eight-state belt (Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, North Carolina, Missouri,Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia) of the US and in other countries: Brazil, Malawi and Argentina.
Cavendish – is all about curing and cutting tobacco leaves to bring out the natural sweetness of tobacco. Cavendish is usually processed from Kentucky,Virginia or barley types and used for pipe or cigar tobacco.
Oriental (Turkish) tobacco – is grown in Turkey, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Greece and Macedonia. Oriental tobacco is used for pipe and cigarette smoking.
Perique – has the strongest flavor. This blend emerged in 1824 in Louisiana Saint James Parish through pressure fermentation of leaves with very distinct flavor. It's the best of the pipe blends (too strong to smoke pure), very popular among the pipe smokers.
Shade tobacco – is grown mostly in Connecticut under tents protecting the plants from direct sunrays. Thus tobacco has lighter color and gentler structure. Shade tobacco leaves are used mostly as cigar wrappers.
Thuoc lao – is grown in Vietnam only. It's a nicotine-rich type of tobacco smoked by Vietnamese farmers. It"s usually smoked on a full stomach since it can cause nausea and vomiting even to experience smokers.
White burley – was originally grown in the Brown County, Ohio. It is more absorbent, has mild taste and fine texture. It's mostly used in American pipe tobacco, and in American type cigarettes.
Type 22 – is fire-cured tobacco produced mainly in certain areas of Tennessee.
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