Scraps

As Scraps (from the English scrap waste, scrap) by-products are used in tobacco production referred. During threshing the tobacco leaves the sheet material is by the sheet ribs separated, thereby it contains larger as the major product sheet components, the so-called. Strips , and as by-products the smaller sheet components, the scraps , as well as the sheet ribs.

Scraps are used, for example, for pipe tobacco or serve as so-called scrap fillers as an insert for cigarillos or cheap cigars ( short fillers ).

Individual evidence

• The factory for the first processing of the tobacco. In: France Tabac (Union of French Tobacco Cooperatives). Archived from the original on July 29, 2011 ; Retrieved July 29, 2011 .