Up to 80% of the produced pulp is used for specialty papers (including 95% of cigarette paper).
Cigarettes that burn longer due to cigarette paper/tobacco qualities are preferred for mixing and smoking charas.
Not a cigarette paper between them.
The statistical association between heavy cigarette smoking and cancer of the lung has led to intensive attempts to detect carcinogens both in cigarette tobacco and in cigarette paper.
And they are not allowed to buy cigarettes and cigarette paper, because what is really discouraged and what the law deals with is the possibility of their smoking.
So far these are inconclusive, but recent publications in this country indicate the presence of certain chemical substances with such carcinogenic potentialities in the combustion products of cigarette paper.
The sale of cigarette paper is going through the roof and that of hand-rolling tobacco is going through the floor.
They may find, for instance, that they are now producing a surplus of grass used for cigarette paper, liquid eggs or bristles.
