This article is MUST reading for any of the people who are trying to grow their own tobacco
Quantities of leaf-tobacco are shipped in a condition deprived of their stem and midrib, and are then known as stripts. Those which are not received in this state, after having been damped, are passed through the hands of workmen, who fold each leaf edge to edge, and rip out the midrib by a deft twirl of the fingers, classifying the two halves of each leaf, and ranging the sorts in separate piles as smooth as possible
Many essential oils, especially citrus and tea tree, can be irritating to cats, dogs, and birds
Imperial Tobacco Canada launched a constitutional challenge against the federal government in April, saying the new labels infringe on its ability to communicate with customers and violates their Charter rights to freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication