Show A molasses M makes akes tobacco bum tongue laa ea ri ASHINGTON say ill have to W washington drop this brand of smoking it nearly burns the tongue off me the he mutter matter with it said bald the smoker to a washington tobacconist its been made up with a little bit too much molasses mol nasea said the tobacconist tho the tobacco intended for or winter sale always has bam a little more molasses in it than summer tobacco several reasons for adding mola molasses sites to tobacco he continued coming back to the end of the counter in the first place it if the teal leaf made just the least bit sticky it would be apt to crumble to a very fine powder that would choke up ili your pipe especially in winter when tobacco gets geta extremely dry so when they add a little molasses to the cut leaf they make a thin sticky film over it this keeps the tobacco in good gaoa shape and the molasses iDo lasaca locks the nicotine in the body it if the leaf as well nicotine you know will evaporate and be lout lost it the tobacco la Is exposed long enough then when the nicotine to Is gone you might as well smoke thi thes cabbage leaf the comic papers talk about so much about tor for all thesalis faction you get plug tobacco Is simply leaf glued together with molasses and then pressed into a block if take a plug of smoking and petit puta in a damp place outside somewhere and then come back after a week or two to look at it see ice a vile pile of square aquaro cut lea leaven vets perhaps ave or six inches high this la Is because the tobacco will have lost the molasses glue not from tho the molasses having been washed ott off the lent leaf but from its ita having fermented into binegar yi negar the flim dim of molasses keeps tho the leaf moist and pliable this la Is because of the sugar crystals in it if youve ever noticed salt in wet er often ha have been how it gathered the wet the sugar crystals act exactly like the crystals of pat salt but to a less leaa degree when you fellows that smoke pipes say that tobacco burns your tongue youre away oft off the tobacco a thing to do with it and your tongue being burnt its being scalded prom from the moisture in the tobacco asked the customer partly said the tobacconist but mostly train from moisture not think was in the tobacco theres a great deal of moisture in the little sugar crystals over and above what expect they might collect from the air when you melt this sugar in your pipe each crystal dissolves first in a little pool of water and makes material for steam in addition to t the h 0 free water in the tobacco that you can feet feel with your fingers this hot stearn steam makes a regular steam heating system between the bowl of your pipe and your tongue and white while yuu you think your tongue la Is being burnt youre actually getting your tongue parboiled |