Propylene glycol casing sprayed on wholeleaftobacco?
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I have visited the WLT warehouse, and watched them working. They use a mist of pure water to bring the leaf into case for handling. I have smoked many, many pounds of WLT tobacco, and can say with certainty that there is no propylene glycol present. (I also find PG to be undesirable in smoking tobacco, and quite easy to identify when present.) Adding PG would render the leaf a "tobacco product", rather than raw, unprocessed tobacco commodity.
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Bob
The only thing we use PG on is when we're creating "Prop tobacco". We soak the leaves in a PG solution so they don't dry out and become brittle. When we do this, we put a warning on the package "not fit for consumption".
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Ok, crystal clear. I thought it was some kind of smokable tobacco.
They are different chemicals, though they differ by only one hydroxyl group
Lose another hydroxyl, and you end up with an alcohol: propanol. Simple organic chemistry. Lose all the hydroxyl groups, and you have propane.
Bob
BarG
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Propylene glycol sounds real familiar as a wood presertive, not tobacco
GrowleyMonster
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I believe Propylene Glycol is also used in antfreeze. It tastes sweet to dogs, and dogs have been poisoned from lapping up spilled puddles of the stuff. I could care less about traces of glycerine, but I certainly wouldn't want any antifreeze in my cigars.
Automotive antifreeze is made from ETHYLENE glycol, which is toxic. Propylene glycol is contained in many of the foods you purchase, is not toxic, and is added to most commercial pipe tobacco blends. Propylene glycol is not used in cigars.
Bob
GrowleyMonster
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Ah. Thanks for that correction.
BarG
Founding Member
Polyethylene glycol refered to as (peg) is the product I was trying to remember. Used to soak turning blanks prone to radial split. I've never used it, it's very expensive and no bueno for tobacco.
Huffen'Snuff
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I wish my brain had any capacity for organic chemistry.They are different chemicals, though they differ by only one hydroxyl group
Lose another hydroxyl, and you end up with an alcohol: propanol. Simple organic chemistry. Lose all the hydroxyl groups, and you have propane.
Bob
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I would love to learn organic chemistry, maybe I have not got a text b. that keeps my attention deficiency hyperactivi dism?
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