Nearly all types of tobacco are used in the manufacture of chewing, even 

 those that are primarily cigar and cigarette types. Although both flue-cured 

 and burley are considered cigarette types, both owe their early use to the 

 chewing tobacco industry, and continue to furnish some leaf for the manu- 

 facture of these products. The dark air-cured and, to some extent, fire-cured 

 types go into various chewing forms; and cigar leaf is the principal kind of 

 tobacco going into the loose leaf chewing product. 



Plug is made of leaf tobacco pressed into flat cakes after the stems have 

 been removed. The plug consists of two parts, filler and wrapper. Fillers 

 consist mainly of the heavier grades of flue-cured, burley, dark air-cured, 

 and some fire-cured tobacco. The wrappers are leaves carefully selected for 

 fine quality and appearance but some brands use reconstituted tobacco as wrap- 

 pers. Various saucing compounds are added to the tobacco, such as licorice, 

 maple sugar, honey, etc. Two distinct kinds of plug are made — one flat or 

 thin and moderately sweetened, and the other thick and heavily sweetened. 



Twist tobacco probably originated on the farm where the grower found it 

 convenient to make his leaf tobacco up into twists for future use. Twist is 

 similar to that product known as roll tobacco, which was the very earliest 

 form of tobacco manufacture. In making commercial twist, the leaf is stemmed 

 and twisted into small rolls and folded. Most twist is treated with the same 

 kind of saucing preparations used for making plug, but some is left plain. 

 One-sucker, burley, and fire-cured are the types of leaf used in the manufac- 

 ture of twist. Hand labor is used to a large extent in the small twist fac- 

 tories located in producing areas, but machine methods are used by larger 

 firms. 



Fine-cut tobacco, as indicated by the name, is made of finely shredded 

 leaf, cut much the same as for the manufacture of cigarettes. However, some 

 forms may be so finely cut as to appear coarsely ground, and closely 

 resemble moist snuff. Some of it is heavily coated with saucing, like the 

 thick plug. Burley and Green River are the principal leaf types used. 



Loose-leaf chewing , unlike most other chewing and pipe-smoking products, 

 is made almost entirely of cigar-leaf tobacco. Cigar leaf used consists of 

 "stemming" grades, or those not suitable for cigar manufacture. Practically 

 all the stems and some of the coarser fibers are removed before processing. 

 Loose leaf chewing is also an outlet for broken leaves and "cuttings" from 

 cigar manufacture. The product consists of irregular fragments or flake? of 

 tobacco leaf, about 1/4 to 1 inch in diameter, and put up in small packages. 

 It is classified in the trade as sweet (heavily cased with flavoring materials) 

 and plain. 



Smoking Tobacco 



The term "smoking tobacco" commonly refers to pipe tobacco, although con- 

 siderable quantities of tobacco so classified are used in hand-rolled ciga- 

 rettes. Smoking tobacco is manufactured in many forms, such as granulated , 

 plug cut , long cut , cube cut , and others. Various types of leaf are used in 

 the manufacture, but the most widely-used single type is burley. 



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