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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Cigarette dumping

Tobacco; General tobacco

The practise of selling cigarettes below the price usually charged in a domestic market in order to establish brand dominance and gain competitive edge.

Claro

Tobacco; General tobacco

Pale to light brown. The Classic colour of Connecticut shade grown tobacco wrapper. This colour can also be referred to as natural.

Claudication

Tobacco; General tobacco

Pain in the muscles (especially the calf muscles) during exercise caused by too little blood flow.

Chaveta (roller's knife)

Tobacco; General tobacco

The knife used in a cigar factory for cutting the wrapper leaf.

Chewing tobacco

Tobacco; General tobacco

A sub-category of oral smokeless tobacco products that are chewed during use.

Chewing tobacco bits

Tobacco; General tobacco

A form of chewing tobacco traditionally used in Scandinavia. The manufacturing process consists of stem removal. Thereafter, the tobacco leaves are spun and "twisted" together by hand into a strand. ...

Cessation

Tobacco; General tobacco

Also called 'quitting'. The goal of treatment to help people achieve abstinence from smoking or other tobacco use, also used to describe the process of changing the behaviour.