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5 Sales to Federally Recognized Indian Reservations

In terms of the content of aroma substances in flue-cured tobacco leaves, the T4 and T5 treatments had relatively higher contents, while the T4 treatment scored the highest in sensory quality evaluation, followed by the T5 and T2 treatments

See Guidance: Compliance Policy for Certain Labeling and Warning Statement Requirements for Cigars and Pipe Tobacco

And while most tobacco growers use plenty of commercial fertilizer, it is residual herbicides from use on corn and soybeans that will kill the plant, making it hard to rotate into land treated with those chemicals.