Tobacco
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...harvested together with the stalk. Tobacco leaves are cured, fermented...connected to a furnace. The cured tobacco is graded, bunched, and stacked...and aging. Most commercial tobaccos are blends of several types...nearly 1.7 billion pounds of tobacco in 1997 (about one tenth of...