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Once on the verge of extinction, a storied southern tobacco processor continues to gain strength and rolls out a new tobacco auction for vintage, decade-aged leaf.
(Smokeshop) ... Widely used in pipe tobacco blends in small quantities, a component in some specialty cigarettes, chewing tobacco and even some cigar blends, the strongly flavored anaerobically fermented tobacco is available from the last leaf merchant in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Continued
Image: "Barrels of perique tobacco during process of aging. Perique tobacco is raised in one parish in Louisiana, and this is the only place in the world where this tobacco is raised. Saint James Parish, Louisiana, 1938." (Russell Lee/Library of Congress)
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