General tobacco

General tobacco

A product that is processed by dry plant leaves of the genus Nicotiana. Tobacco is most commonly used as a drug, but can also be used as a pesticide. It is the product that is used in cigars and cigarettes, chewing tobacco, snuff, and flavored shisha.

Industry: Tobacco

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cased burley

Tobacco; General tobacco

Burley strip tobacco which has been sprayed with casing, a flavoring solution, after drying.

casing

Tobacco; General tobacco

A solution of flavoring additives used for spraying onto tobacco or stems.

carbon monoxide (CO)

Tobacco; General tobacco

A colourless, odourless highly poisonous gas found in tobacco smoke and in the lungs of people who have recently smoked, or (in smaller amounts) in people who have been exposed to tobacco smoke. May ...

carton

Tobacco; General tobacco

Contains 10 packs of cigarettes.

cap

Tobacco; General tobacco

A circular piece of wrapper leaf cigar tobacco that is placed at the head of the cigar to secure the wrapper. Cuban cigar caps have a distinctive three to four-layer circular look that distinguishes ...

cannibalization

Tobacco; General tobacco

When a spinoff product of one brand erodes the established market of the "parent" brand (e.g., the introduction of Marlboro Lights would cannibalize the Marlboro regular brand market).

candela

Tobacco; General tobacco

A bright green color that was first popularized in the U. S. In the 1800's and early 1900's. Achieved by a heat-curing process that fixes the chlorophyll content of the wrapper while it's still in ...