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Cheap Cigarettes

Tobaccos used for cheap cigarettes are generally from the same crops that produce high quality smokes, but they are often made from the unused parts and byproducts from that production process. The tobaccos used are generally a blend of flue-cured brightleaf, burley tobacco, oriental and Turkish tobaccos, but the good leaves are generally reserved for the most expensive smokes. The shavings, dust and stems are what are generally used for lower quality cigarettes.

Cheap cigarettes are an amalgamation of all the unused and lower quality parts of the tobacco plant. The plant matter is gathered together, often during the cleaning process after processing a high quality batch of tobacco, and then ground down, made into a paste by adding water and then allowed to dry into a sheet. This is called blended leaf sheet and is usually made from dust, stems and pectin. Another method is to take whole tobacco and turn it into expanded tobacco. The tobacco is puffed up with carbon dioxide, then immediately heated to remove the CO2. It enlarges the size of the tobacco, but it retains the same mass, so less tobacco is need to fill a cigarette.

Another method to create cheap cigarettes is called reconstituted leaf sheet, and it involves extracting the chemicals in tobacco, turning the plant material into paper and then reapplying the chemicals in a concentrated form, usually with ammonium added at the same time to make it an effective nicotine delivery system. There are ways of smoking high quality cheap cigarettes, but they often require then to be rolled by hand.

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