Our various products contain different types of tobacco leaf from many countries, which can be blended for aroma, taste and character.
Most of the tobacco we use is grown by independent farmers who typically harvest the leaf by hand over a period of two to four months.
The harvested tobacco leaf is then cured. This is a carefully controlled process used to achieve the texture, colour and overall quality of a specific tobacco type. During the cure, leaf starch is converted into sugar, the green colour vanishes and the tobacco goes through colour changes from light yellow to orange to brown like tree leaves in autumn.
There are four common curing methods:
There are three main types of tobacco used in cigarettes:
These and many other types of tobacco are also used in making hand-rolling tobacco, pipe tobacco, cigars, chewing tobacco and smokeless snus.