Shag Styles
There are several shag blends or tobacco styles using different tobaccos, curing techniques and cutting types. Sometimes additives like sugar, glycerol and fruit flavors are added.
- American shag is typically a mixture of domestic and/or imported tobacco and air cured Burley.
- Virginia or Light blends are mainly made up of Virginia tobacco.
- Smooth adds Georgia tobaccos to a Light blend.
- Halfzware, meaning "half heavy" in Dutch, is a combination of Light and Zware shag, nowadays called Stevige.
- Turkish is a blend that mainly consists of Turkish Tobaccos like Yenidje, Samsun, Bafra etc.
- Zware, meaning "heavy" in Dutch, consists mainly of fire cured Kentucky, Latakia and air cured Paraguay.
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