The process of cigarette making, packaging, and placing the packs 

 cartons ready hr the consumer. 



storage from two to three years. Dur- 

 ing the aging period the tobacco 

 sweats or goes through a slight feimen- 

 tation which mellows the flavor for use 

 in the finished product. 



Manufacturing Process 



Cigarettes are by far the leading 

 manufactured tobacco pioduct in this 

 Country. The pioduction of cigarettes 

 utilizes about 95 per cent of the crop 

 of Hue-cured tobacco in making more 

 than 400 billion cigarettes annually. 

 If all of this 400 billion cigarettes 

 were laid end to end around the world 

 at the equator, there would be enough 

 to reach around the world more than 

 700 times. This is an average of about 

 2,500 cigarettes for every man, woman 

 and child in the United States annually. 



The modem cigarette machines will 

 make 1,200 to 1,500 cigarettes per min- 

 ute. The following diagram outlines 

 the general process of making cigar- 

 ettes. 





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A nearly perfect leaf of golden flue- 

 cured tobacco of the very best cigar- 

 ette quality. This leaf, known as a cut- 

 ter, will be cut into fine threads with 

 a machine that will make 60 to 100 cuts 

 per inch of leaf. Cigarette tofaocco is 

 threaded to keep it from falling out the 

 open ends of the cigarette. 



PROCESS OF /AAMHG CIG^RETFES 



