Tobacco leaves
yes it is
Curing tobacco is when a tobacco farmer hangs the tobacco leaves in a barn to dry and age prior to sending them to market for purchase by tobacco companies.
Tobacco is made from the leaves of the tobacco plant, scientifically known as Nicotiana tabacum. This plant belongs to the nightshade family, Solanaceae, and is cultivated for its leaves which are dried and processed for various tobacco products like cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco.
Tobacco leaves, yes they are.
Tobacco Leaves on a tobacco plant
tobacco? I'm not an expert, but ive seen tobacco leaves hanging in barns. they don't do that to store them i would assume. they look dry to me.
Tobacco plants grow in fields. Workers strip the leaves from the stalks. The leaves are hung upside down in a barn to dry. If the barn is not heated, burley tobacco is produced. If the barn is heated, flue cured tobacco is produced. Then the tobacco is taken to a warehouse. An auctioneer starts calling out numbers much faster than I can understand. Then he says sold and the farmer's load of tobacco is sold.
People make tobacco. People grow the tobacco plant, pick the leaves, the leaves are dried and cut and this is what we call tobacco.
Tobacco plant + twist leaves into "ropes"+dry for several weeks.
Tobacco is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant.
Cigars are wrapped in and composed of pressed Tobacco leaves. Inside a cigar is chopped tobacco leaves, the outside that holds the tobacco together is one or more leaves, depending on the size of the cigar. Some cheaper cigars or "flavored cigars" which are the size of cigarettes are just wrapped in a brown, rough paper to simulate tobacco leaves. ---- The "wrapper" leaf is a single tobacco leaf that is used to hold the cigar together and to give it a finished look.