Wondering about the differences between sun-curing and flue-curing. Specifically: does the sunlight itself play a part in the particular characteristics of sun-cured tobacco, or is it all down to heat, humidity, and time (and the leaf itself, of course)? I know that light has a significant impact on the degradation of many phytochemicals (why you dry and store medicinal and culinary herbs in the dark) - but what effect does it have on curing tobacco? Or, in short: if one lives in a land where the Sun is generally considered a mythical beast, would it be possible to roughly duplicate a sun-cure with a flue cure designed to simulate the heat/humidity/duration conditions?