Curing or drying tobacco is the first step in processing the tobacco necessary to prepare the tobacco for consumption. There are several ways tobacco can be cured including a process called air-curing. Air-cured tobacco is tobacco leaves which are left to dry naturally. The leaves are hung in big barn-like shelters with room temperature air pumped in. The leaves need to stay in the shelter until the leaf has turned a light brown colour. At this point the leaf is left with hardly any sugar content.
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