Chewing Tobacco - Forms of Chewing Tobacco

Forms of Chewing Tobacco

  • Loose Leaf Tobacco is sweetened and packaged loose in aluminum-lined pouches. The chewer simply takes a portion directly from the pouch. This is the most widely available.
  • Plug tobacco is press formed into sheets, with the aid of a little syrup, mostly molasses, which helps maintain form as well as sweeten. The sheets are then cut into individual plugs, wrapped with fine tobacco and then packaged. Individual servings must be cut or bitten directly from the plug.
  • Twist tobacco is spun and rolled into large rope-like strands and then twisted into a knot. The final product is much lower in moisture than plug or loose leaf tobacco, and historic varieties could be smoked in a pipe as well as chewed. This was the most common form of chewing tobacco in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • Tobacco bits are formed by rolling sweetened and typically flavored tobacco into small pieces which are consumed individually. These are typically packaged in small tins like mints.

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