What is chewing tobacco?

Chewing cigarettes. Mainly: 1. "Flat plug tobacco", a pressed rectangular light-colored tobacco block, has little or no sweetness; 2. "Sailor's cigarette" is a flat rectangular thick-flavored barley-colored tobacco block with strong fragrance, and spices or sweeteners are added, such as licorice, molasses wine, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar and honey; 3. "Cigarettes", dark hard cigarettes rolled into ropes; 4. "Fine tobacco cutting", i.e. removing stems and cutting fine tobacco shreds, and adding high-grade seasoning without pressure; "Broken tobacco" is a by-product of cigar production, which is made from tobacco leaves.

Chewing tobacco was once common in some Indian tribes. After 18 15, chewing tobacco almost replaced pipe in the United States and became a unique way of tobacco use in the United States. Part of the reason for this change is the chauvinistic response to the habit of smoking snuff and pipe in Europe; Part of the reason is that it is more convenient for enterprising and busy Americans to chew cigarettes during activities than to light pipes. The symbol of this change is the spittoon, which became a necessity in America in the19th century.

According to the census statistics of Virginia and North Carolina 1860, 335 of the 348 tobacco factories only produce chewing tobacco, and 6 households produce cigarette by-products with the leftover of "stuffed cigarettes". By the beginning of the 20th century, cigarettes became more and more popular, and chewing cigarettes began to decline. After World War I, the number of people chewing "flat cigarettes" decreased rapidly.