<Li> Turkish tobacco is a sun - cured, highly aromatic, small - leafed variety (Nicotiana tabacum) grown in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and Macedonia . Originally grown in regions historically part of the Ottoman Empire, it is also known as "oriental". Many of the early brands of cigarettes were made mostly or entirely of Turkish tobacco; today, its main use is in blends of pipe and especially cigarette tobacco (a typical American cigarette is a blend of bright Virginia, burley, and Turkish). </Li> <Li> Perique was developed in 1824 through the technique of pressure - fermentation of local tobacco by a farmer, Pierre Chenet . Considered the truffle of pipe tobaccos, it is used as a component in many blended pipe tobaccos, but is too strong to be smoked pure . At one time, the freshly moist Perique was also chewed, but none is now sold for this purpose . It is typically blended with pure Virginia to lend spice, strength, and coolness to the blend . </Li> <Li> Shade tobacco is cultivated in Connecticut and Massachusetts . Early Connecticut colonists acquired from the Native Americans the habit of smoking tobacco in pipes, and began cultivating the plant commercially, though the Puritans referred to it as the "evil weed". The Connecticut shade industry has weathered some major catastrophes, including a devastating hailstorm in 1929, and an epidemic of brown spot fungus in 2000, but is now in danger of disappearing altogether, given the increase in the value of land . </Li> <Li> White burley air - cured leaf was found to be more mild than other types of tobacco . In 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted red burley seeds he had purchased, and found a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look, which became white burley . </Li>

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