In Soviet times, especially during the Second World War, people used to smoke some kind of mysterious shag every now and then. What is she really? Is it a separate culture or just one of the local names for common tobacco? Let's try to understand this issue and dot the i's.
Attention: smoking is bad for your health!
In order to make everything completely clear, let's plunge into the school biology course and remember how all living organisms are classified. Domain is defined first, then kingdom, then department, then class, order, family, and finally genus and species. So shag and ordinary tobacco are two different types of plants of the same genus and family. Most often, people smoke a product made from a plant belonging to the species "Nicotiana tabacum" or "Common Tobacco", which is part of the tobacco genus and belongs to the nightshade family. It is ordinary tobacco that fills most of the cigarettes on the planet.
However, there are other types. For example, a very popular plant species is Nicotiana rustica, which is also a member of the tobacco genus and belongs to the same Solanaceae family as Nicotiana tabacum. What is "rustica" and why was it mentioned at all? Because this is the same shag that Soviet citizens smoked so often. The popular name of this product comes from the Dutch city of Amersfoort, where at one time there was the largest production of shag in the 18th century.
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Different types of tobacco are related, but may differ in the way of use and "taste" qualities. If "Nicotiana tabacum" is most often stuffed into cigarettes, then "Nicotiana rustica" is traditionally consumed with cigarettes, goat's feet, and pipes. It differs from ordinary shag tobacco in thicker and heavier smoke, much more saturated taste due to the increased concentration of tar and nicotine in the plant from which smoking is made product. The two tobaccos differ in their different flavors of smoke. In shag it is much sharper and denser.
In continuation of the topic, read about why at the Cossack cradle such a long mouthpiece.
A source: https://novate.ru/blogs/081021/60813/