The chopping of the tobacco stalk, stacking the leaves on spear-studded sticks, loading the sticks onto a passing flatbed truck and hanging the stalks – row upon row – in barns to cure.

The flavor profiles of tobacco leaves ... a humidity level of 70% during the browning stage of air-curing produced the best quality leaves, as it balanced moisture content and chemical composition ...

"It's Toasted" is a slogan of the American Tobacco Co. for its Lucky Strike brand from 1917, referring to heat curing rather than sun drying of the leaf. Purported to "remove harmful corrosive ...