air cured tobacco

Hello there, This is my first year growing Virginia tobacco. I have a problem drying tobacco leaves. Every time white dots appear on them, or green ones like that. I dry tobacco in the attic where the window is open and the humidity is between 40-50%. I dry the leaves separately hung on a...

Greetings... I am a chemistry professor interested in the chemistry of tobacco smoke. We are interested in how different types of tobacco give different smoke chemistries. Conventional wisdom holds that the type of air cured tobacco that was produced in the early 1800s gave a pretty harsh...