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Shag, also known as rolling tobacco, loose tobacco, baccy and rollies is fine-cut tobacco, used to make self-made cigarettes by hand rolling the tobacco into rolling paper or injecting it into filter tubes. It got its name from the finely cut strands appearing like 'shag' and was originally considered poor quality. Various types of cut are used; most shag blends use a simple mixture of cutting styles, consisting mostly of loose cut but also krumble kake, ribbon cut and flake may be used. Some shag blends use cuts reminiscent of pipe tobacco. A cigarette made with shag tobacco may be called a ''rollie'', a ''roll-up''/''dole-up'' or ''hand-rolled.'' The flat bags in which shag is typically packaged for commercial sale are often called ''tobacco pouches''. Oppositely, pre-processed and packaged cigarettes may be referred to colloquially as ''tailor-mades'' or ''straights''. ==Shag styles== There are several shag blends or tobacco styles using different tobaccos, curing techniques and cutting types. Sometimes additives like sugar, glycerol and fruit flavors are added. *''American'' shag is typically a mixture of domestic and/or imported tobacco and air cured Burley. *''Virginia'' or ''Light'' blends are mainly made up of Virginia tobacco. *''Smooth'' adds Georgia tobaccos to a ''Light'' blend. *''Halfzware'', meaning "half heavy" in Dutch, is a combination of ''Light'' and ''Zware'' shag, nowadays called ''Stevige''. *''Turkish'' is a blend that mainly consists of Turkish Tobaccos like Yenidje, Samsun, Bafra etc. *''Zware'', meaning "heavy" in Dutch, consists mainly of fire cured Kentucky, Latakia and air cured Paraguay. *"Chopwell" shag or "dumpa rollies" consist of loose tobacco found on toilet floors and outside job centres 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shag (tobacco)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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