Manufacturing Page 2

Stripping machine opens up and machine operator pulls the two booked stacks of tobacco leaves out. From this point on the half leaves are kept separate in a left side group and a right side group. All tobacco goes on to the machine rolling floor of the building as either lefts or rights. And yes, there is such a thing as a left-handed cigar...so to speak, if the cigar is wrapped with the left half of the tobacco leaf wrapper.



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