Patriotguy
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"The Indians hang the leaves in the shade or, rarely, spread them out in the sun to dry.
Smoking tobacco should be yellowish or brown. The leaves are sometimes bleached with sulfur to give them a light yellow color. The taste is improved by adding sugar solutions, spices, salts, and coloring agents to the leaves. Chewing tobacco is produced from tobacco leaves that have been allowed to sit in a tobacco solution. Industrial tobacco snuffs may be aromatized with extracts of juniper berries (Juniperus communis L.; cf. Juniperus recurva), calamus root (Acorus calamus), sassafras wood (Sassafras albidum), and spices (Wagner 1985, 172*). In Burma (Myanmar), “the tobacco is doused with urine to improve the flavor” (Hartwich 1911, 113*)."
The Lacandon still enjoy smoking cigars rolled from unfermented tobacco leaves.
(Very interesting read, more of a combination of history and science) Source: https://doctorlib.info/herbal/encyclopedia-psychoactive-plants-ethnopharmacology/77.html
Smoking tobacco should be yellowish or brown. The leaves are sometimes bleached with sulfur to give them a light yellow color. The taste is improved by adding sugar solutions, spices, salts, and coloring agents to the leaves. Chewing tobacco is produced from tobacco leaves that have been allowed to sit in a tobacco solution. Industrial tobacco snuffs may be aromatized with extracts of juniper berries (Juniperus communis L.; cf. Juniperus recurva), calamus root (Acorus calamus), sassafras wood (Sassafras albidum), and spices (Wagner 1985, 172*). In Burma (Myanmar), “the tobacco is doused with urine to improve the flavor” (Hartwich 1911, 113*)."
The Lacandon still enjoy smoking cigars rolled from unfermented tobacco leaves.
(Very interesting read, more of a combination of history and science) Source: https://doctorlib.info/herbal/encyclopedia-psychoactive-plants-ethnopharmacology/77.html