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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General trade (GT)

Tobacco; General tobacco

A euphemism used by tobacco companies to indicate smuggled goods.

Free-trade zone

Tobacco; General tobacco

Typically sited in developing countries, free-trade zones are designed to attract business foreign investments by creating areas in which normal trade barriers and bureaucratic requirements are ...

Frog-eye

Tobacco; General tobacco

A whitish spot on tobacco leaves that gives the tobacco a ripe appearance. The spot is actually the result of a disease.

Flake and plug tobaccos

Tobacco; General tobacco

After the tobacco leaf has been prepared, it is put into moulding presses where it is put under tremendous pressure usually by means of hydraulics, here it is pressed into what is commonly known as ...

Flue-cured

Tobacco; General tobacco

Are represented by the majority of warm-air dried Virginia. The cultivation is expanding rapidly. The plant developed is average and six crops are produced. Each crop is taken to a bulk curing barn ...

Flag

Tobacco; General tobacco

An alternative to a cap that involves shaping the wrapper leaf at the head of the cigar so that it secures the wrapper in place. Sometimes a flag can be tied off in a pig-tail or curly head.