Use of licorice has been used for over 100 years. I never knew or tasted it in the chew.
Loose Leaf Chew
BRAND NAMES: Red Man, Red Man Golden Blend, Red Man Select, Granger, Work Horse
(Swedish Match products), Scotten, Dillon, Levi Garrett, HB Scott, Taylors Pride, Red Fox
(Conwood products), Beech-Nut Regular, Beech-Nut Wintergreen, Beech-Nut Spearmint
(National products), Chattanooga Chew (Swisher product)
COMMON NAMES: chewing tobacco, spit tobacco
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF USE: United States
PRODUCT CONSTITUENTS: leaf tobacco, sweetener, and/or licorice
HOW USED: A piece of tobacco 0.75 to 1 inch in diameter is placed between the cheek and
lower lip, typically toward the back of the mouth. It is either chewed or held in place.1
Saliva is
spit or swallowed.
WHO USES: In 2000, U.S. prevalence of current (used within the past 30 days) smokeless
tobacco use (includes both snuff and chewing tobacco) for those 12 years old and over was 3.4%:
6.5% of males and 0.5% of females.2
PROCESSING / MANUFACTURING: Commercially manufactured. Loose cigar tobacco
leaves are air-cured, then stemmed, cut or granulated and loosely packed to form small strips of
shredded tobacco. Most brands are sweetened and flavored with licorice. Typically sold in
pouches weighing about 3 ounces.1
Loose-leaf tobacco has a high average sugar content
(approximately 35%).3
Of course there's other flavors I recently bought like black cherry, coconut rum, Peach (not sure how that smokes yet), and a couple of other flavors.
