Cigarette tobacco and its types

Tobacco or Nicotine
Tobacco, tobacco… Sure, those are the dry, fragrant crumbs. But what most of us know is the final product. Tobacco as such is originally a botanical class of aubergine plants with the eloquent Latin name Nicotiana. It is nicotine - a substance with relaxing effects - that contains the leaves of this plant. Dried ones are therefore used for the production of cigars, classic cigarettes, pipe fillings, chewing or snuff and, last but not least, for the increasingly popular electronic cigarettes. For its stimulating effect, however, the plant was used long before the invention of the classic cigarette for various shamanic and healing rituals.

There are many types of tobacco, but only two are suitable for further processing: Virgin tobacco or Nicotiana tabaccum, a bred plant native to South America that is used to make most types of cigarettes and cigars

Peasant tobacco or Nicotiana rustica, a useful plant from Mexico used for the manufacture of cigarette mixtures, tobacco mixtures for hookahs or for the manufacture of chewing tobacco

Almost like wine
Several thousand varieties of tobacco have already been created by experimentation and breeding, the most widespread being industrial cultivars of Virginia tobacco. We know them under names like Virginia, Burley, Orient, Havana, Kentucky, Maryland, Perique or even Latakia. As you can guess, the name refers to the place where they were first grown. The individual types differ mainly in the properties of the leaves (different color, content of substances such as sugar or nicotine), different processing (drying, processing of leaves), as well as the unmistakable taste, aroma or burning.

3 The basic types of cigarette tobacco are:
Virgin: light, artificially dried tobacco, which today accounts for almost two thirds of total world production. When smoking, it gives a pleasant sweetness and a slightly smoky taste. Burley: light tobacco dried in natural air, which is mainly grown in Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio. It has an extremely delicate taste and an almost unobservable own aroma. Due to these properties, it absorbs aromatic substances well and does not burn on the tongue and palate even in large doses. Orient: bright, sun-dried tobaccos grown in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. The leaves are significantly smaller than in other species, often not individual leaves are harvested, but whole plants. Oriental tobaccos are added to a large number of blends because their lightness and softness reduce the burning of other tobaccos.

In addition to differences in taste, tobacco can also be divided according to the form of use, namely:

• inflammable tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, hookahs, hookahs)
• smokeless tobacco (snuff, chewing, portioned)
• heated tobacco (electronic cigarettes type PULZE)