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Y1 has a higher nicotine content than conventional flue-cured tobacco (6.5% versus 3.2—3.5%), [16] but a comparable amount of tar, and does not affect taste or aroma. [17] British American Tobacco (BAT) began to discuss the trialling of Y1 tobacco in 1991, [18] despite it not being approved for use in the United States. [13]
The process will generally take about a week. This method produces tobacco that is high in sugar and has medium to high levels of nicotine. The Smith Tobacco Barn is an example of a traditional, flue-cured tobacco barn. [6] Flue-cured tobacco requires an estimated one tree per 300 cigarettes. [7]
U.S. Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers, Person County, North Carolina. Flue-cured tobacco is a type of cigarette tobacco. Along with burley tobacco, it accounts for more than 90% of US tobacco production. Flue-cured farming is centered in North Carolina. Production was limited by national marketing quotas and acreage allotments. The crop was eligible ...
This method produces cigarette tobacco that is high in sugar and has medium to high levels of nicotine. It is the fastest method of curing, requiring about a week. Virginia tobacco that has been flue cured is also called bright tobacco, because flue curing turns its leaves gold, orange, or yellow. [citation needed]
Zimbabwe is the largest grower of tobacco in Africa, and the 4th largest grower in the world. Three types of tobacco have traditionally been grown in the country: Virginia flue-cured, burley and oriental tobacco. Over 95% of Zimbabwe’s tobacco consists of flue-cured tobacco, which is renowned for its flavor. [1]
The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860(Duke University Press, 1938), a major scholarly study. Robert, Joseph C. The Story of Tobacco in America (1959), by a scholar. online; Swanson, Drew A. A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South (Yale University Press, 2014) 360pp
Flue-cured tobacco (a.k.a. "Virginia" tobacco [6]), especially when using an open flame, contains most of the NNK in American blended tobaccos [7] although Marlboro's "virginia blend" had the lowest levels of NNK per nicotine out of many tested with the exception of Natural American Spirit. [8]
Flue-cured tobacco was originally strung onto tobacco sticks, which were hung from tier poles in curing barns (Aus: kilns, also traditionally called 'oasts'). These barns have flues run from externally fed fire boxes, heat-curing the tobacco without exposing it to smoke, slowly raising the temperature over the course of the curing.