Category Archives: Cigarette Facts
Methods for Curing Tobacco
Flue-cured Tobacco The most popular curing process is identified as flue-curing. Applied mostly in the production of cigarettes, the most popular type of flue-cured tobacco is Virginia. Virginia tobacco is as well well-known as ‘bright tobacco’ as the heat-drying process provides the leaves a bright colour. The temperature of the heater is little by little increased until the leaves and … Continue reading
Are light cigarettes better than regular cigarettes?
Obviously many people, especially smoking people, ask themselves if ultra mild, mild and light cigarettes are safer than common cigarettes? Whether these cigarettes help give up smoking or are better for health are things that most smokers want to believe. What is the real affect of mild, ultra mild or light cigarettes? Do the mild cigarettes truly help smokers stop … Continue reading
Cigarette Ingredients and Composition
Cigarettes look like a simply made product that consists of paper tubes, chopped up tobacco leaf, usually with a filter at the mouth end. Actually, they are highly engineered products, meant for deliver a steady amount of nicotine. Tobacco that is inserted in a cigarette is mixed from two main leaf varieties: Virginia that is as well called yellowish ‘bright’ … Continue reading
Cigar smoking jumps among African-American teens
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published new study that the rate of cigarette smoking among young people continues to decrease, but the situation with another tobacco product is not so good. The study revealed that, from 2009 to 2011, cigar smoking by African-American youth increased from 7.1% to 11.7%. 15.7% of high school boys are cigar smokers, a … Continue reading
Cigarette Advertising
Cigarettes are considered to the most advertised product in the U.S. The cigarette giants expend 4 billion dollars per year or 11 million dollars per day to attract and make people to buy cigarettes. Every day the tobacco companies undertake measures against the increasing number of reports about the health risks of smoking. Smoking is considered to be extremely popular … Continue reading
JTI curves the way for the Premium cigarette sector
Japan Tobacco International, the tobacco giant that is the owner of global flagship cigarette brands such as Camel, Winston, Mevius (former Mild Seven), Silk Cut, Glamour and Sobranie, declared about the launching of the world’s first curved package design for its premium cigarette brand, Camel. The original and unusual structural packaging remodelling will be implemented across all Camel Blue 20s … Continue reading
History of tobacco
For the first time tobacco was discovered thousands of years ago and is considered a native plant of the Americas. But, communities in the Andes controlled tobacco growing at a much later time. Supposedly it was between 5000 and 3000 BC. Gradually tobacco was not only in the Andes, but it was spread in on to the colonies, islands and … Continue reading
6 Interesting Cigar Facts
A cigar, unlike cigarettes, is designed to bring pleasure of its flavor, and not to saturate the smoker’s body with the nicotine. According to smokers, the main purpose of smoking a cigar is enjoyment of tobacco flavor. Also, usually cigars define a social status of smoking person and as a rule cigar smoking is a sign of a high social … Continue reading
Reasons for smoking explained
If you stop smoking you gain weight safe! It is really true version that if people get rid of smoking, then they gain weight, but this was because they begin to eat so that to restrain their desire to smoke. However, different people gain different weight. Those who stop smoking, gain weight up to 5 kg, but this gain in … Continue reading
Cigarettes Made from Tobacco with Less Nicotine May Help Smokers Quit
Smokers can inhale less amount of nicotine if they smoke low-nicotine cigarettes and do not return to cigarettes they light up earlier, in accordance with last study. In a study, in which 135 smokers between the ages of 18 and 70 took part, cigarette users who began to smoke cigarettes with less nicotine did not equalize by smoking more cigarettes … Continue reading
