Smoking tobacco (except granulated) is usually packaged in tins or a com 
bination of tin foil, paper, and cellophane. 
Snuff 
Snuff was made and used in America before the landing of Columbus. A cen- 
tury or more ago its use was considered one of the distinguishing marks of the 
gentleman. Snuff-taking enjoyed a degree of elegance for about 200 years, but 
in more recent times its forms of use and the classes of users have changed. 
Contrary to popular belief, very little snuff today is sniffed or used through 
the nose. Most of it is "dipped,'' a term commonly meaning that it is used in 
the mouth (tucked between the lower lip and the gum) as sort of a variation of 
chewing tobacco. Its use is probably centered among the laboring classes in 
the South, particularly Negroes, and the Scandinavian population in Wisconsin 
and Minnesota. 
Production of snuff in the United States has never been large, but even 
today about 30 million pounds are still produced annually. Snuff is made prin- 
cipally from fire-cured; a small quantity of dark air-cured also goes into its 
manufacture. Some of the leaf is stemmed, but for the most part, the entire 
leaf is used and often additional stems are added. 
After the leaf is aged, it is removed from the hogshead, cut into 1 to 2- 
inch pieces, and repacked for the "sweating" or fermentation process. After 
this period, it is dried, coarsely ground, and fed into revolving steel drums 
where rotary rollers reduce it to a fine powder. This product is then strained 
through cloth, flavored, and finally packaged, usually in small tin boxes. 
Snuff is manufactured in many forms. Some of the principal forms are fine 
and coarse, dry and moist, plain and toasted, and salted, sweetened, flavored 
and scented. The different kinds are known by such names as Scotch (dry, 
finely- powdered, and variously flavored) , Swedish and Copenhagen (coarser than 
Scotch and usually semi-moist), Strong Scotch (dry, with little or no flavor- 
ing), and others. Some of the essential oils and spices used for seasoning are 
cinnamon, cassia, attar of roses, wintergreen, mint, etc. 
The chewing and smoking and snuff industry currently employs 5,700 pro- 
duction workers. In 1965, the following amounts of the different products were 
manufactured: chewing tobacco, 65.1 million pounds, including plug, 24.7 mil- 
lion; twist, 2.9 million; fine-cut, 3.7 million, and scrap 33.9 million; smok- 
ing tobacco, 71.8 million; and snuff, 29.7 million. A summary of the various 
types used in the different tobacco products is shown below (imported types 
are shown in parenthesis): 
Product Types _used 
Cigarettes Flue-cured, burley, Maryland, (Turkish) 
Cigars Filler, binder, wrapper, (Cuban, Philippine 
Islands) , some Maryland, fire-cured, and 
Chewing tobacco: dark air-cured 
Plug Flue-cured, burley, dark air-cured, some fire-cured 
Twist One Sucker, burley, fire-cured 
Fine- cut Burley, Green River 
Scrap chewing Cigar leaf 
Smoking tobacco Burley, flue-cured, dark air-cured 
Snuff Fire-cured, some dark air-cured 
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