Common Forms of Tobacco

‘Tobacco’ is an English word which has its origin in the Portuguese and Spanish word ‘Tabaco’. The leaves of a tobacco plant are cured to produce tobacco. Tobacco plants belong to the Solanaceae and Nicotiana family. More than 70 tobacco species have discovered yet, and many others are still under research processes.

Tobacco is stimulant in nature due to its alkaloid nicotine element. Various tobacco products are available in the market. In fact, all the wholesale calcutti tobacco supplier companies in India try to bring new versions of tobacco to attract their customers. The wholesale Calcutti tobacco contains a minimum of 2-2.7% nicotine and 4-6% chloride in it.

Popular forms of tobacco:

The marketplace is rich with a range of new tobacco products which may look quite different from the traditional ones people may aware of. To attract more and more customers, tobacco companies regularly alter their product packages and present novel products in the market.

• Cigarettes
The main component of cigarettes is tobacco wrapped in a paper and contains a filter.

• Cigars/ little cigars/ cigarillos
Cigars are available in the form of cured tobacco which remains wrapped in stuff containing tobacco or inside tobacco leaf. If these are smaller in size then it is called cigarillos or little cigars, and the bigger ones are known as cigars.

• Dissolvable products
In the past days, users needed to spit or discard smokeless tobacco goods. Today, new versions are available in the market with the name ‘dissolvable’. These do not need to be disposed of at all as they are offered in the form of lozenges, sticks, candies, or strips.

• Electronic cigarettes
These may resemble the traditional form of cigarettes but they have a battery-operated heat source for turning on the ‘e-liquid’. It is a kind of liquid containing the tobacco product and flavorings, which get sprayed to be inhaled by its users.

• Smokeless traditional products
Traditionally marketed smokeless tobacco products are of two types-
Ø Chewing tobacco – cured tobacco
Ø Moist snuff – powdered or finely cut dry cured tobacco

• Water pipes or hookah
It is popularly used as shisha, hookah, argileh or nargileh. Hookah tobacco is available in multiple flavors of mint, licorice, cherry, etc.

People cannot avoid the addiction for tobacco but equally conscious about health issues related to its regular and havoc consumption, prefer to use calcutti tobacco. They can contact the reputed wholesale Calcutti tobacco suppliers in India who offer a top-notch product at affordable rates.