(Wikipedia, Burley Tobacco.) Burleys key trait for cigarette manufacturers is that it absorbs casings (sugars, humectants, cocoa, licorice) extremely well, up to 25% of its weight
Michael Siegel, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University January 21, 2011 The Bacchus Network Reaches a New Height for Hypocrisy: Alcohol Industry-Funded Front Group Demands that Colleges Not Accept Tobacco Company Funding In what is surely the height of hypocrisy and what must become the new example for defining hypocrisy, the Bacchus Network a non-profit organization that promotes college-based health education in the areas of tobacco and alcohol is demanding that colleges reject tobacco company funding and sponsorship while itself accepting (and hiding) its own funding from an alcohol company
But it is also rather ironic that the region that is arguably the birthplace of e-smoking harbors some countries that are among the most hostile globally, having banned not only the sale, import, and personal possession of e-smoking devices, but also any personal use at all
tabacum." 4 Toxicologist Brent Furbee explains that "Nicotiana rustica, which contains up to 18% nicotine, is thought to have been the first tobacco export from the New World
