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Perique (/ p ə ˈ r iː k /) is a type of tobacco from Saint James Parish, Louisiana, known for its strong, powerful, and fruity aroma.When the Acadians made their way into this region in 1776, the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were cultivating a variety of tobacco with a distinctive flavor.
In the United States, it is grown in northern middle Tennessee, western Kentucky, and Virginia. Fire-cured tobacco grown in Kentucky and Tennessee is used in some chewing tobaccos, moist snuff, some cigarettes, and as a condiment leaf in pipe tobacco blends. It has a rich, slightly floral taste, and adds body and aroma to the blend. See also ...
Bali Shag is a traditional Dutch-style tobacco blend. The blend is a mixture of dark burley tobacco and light virginia tobaccos. Bali Shag is a European cut tobacco which is popular mostly in the US and Western Europe. [1] [2] [3] The tobacco is cut with a fine silk, or shag, which makes it easier to use for hand rolling.
Virginia or Light blends are mainly made up of Virginia tobacco. Smooth adds Georgia tobaccos to a Light blend. Halfzware, meaning "half heavy" in Dutch, is a combination of Light and Zware shag, nowadays called Stevige or Volle. Turkish is a blend that mainly consists of Turkish tobaccos like Yenidje, Samsun, Bafra etc.
Natural American Spirit products in the year 2000 were advertised as "100% Additive-Free Tobacco". [citation needed]California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced on March 1, 2010, that his office had secured an agreement with the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company to clearly disclose that its organic tobacco is "no safer or healthier" than other tobacco products.
Many of these are blends using staple ingredients of variously cured Burley and Virginia tobaccos which are enhanced by spice tobaccos, among them many Oriental or Balkan varietals, Latakia (a fire-cured spice tobacco of Syrian origin, but now made in other regions, such as, Cyprus and Lebanon), Perique (uniquely grown in St. James Parish ...
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Many of the early brands of cigarettes were made mostly or entirely of Turkish tobacco. Its main use evolved to be included in blends of pipe and especially cigarette tobacco. (A typical American cigarette is a blend of bright Virginia, burley and Turkish.) White burley air-cured leaf was found to be milder than other types of tobacco.