Chewing tobacco - chewing tobacco

Japanese: 嚙みタバコ - かみたばこ
Chewing tobacco - chewing tobacco

...As we enter an age of international competition, future issues include reducing work hours and expanding production scale to achieve low-cost production, forming major production areas, and improving quality. [Kuroda Shotaro]
[Tobacco manufacturing]

[Type of tobacco product]
Tobacco products made from leaf tobacco are classified into five categories: cigarettes, cigars, shredded tobacco, chewing tobacco, and snuff. Since tobacco was introduced to Europe at the end of the 15th century, cigars and shredded tobacco became popular in Europe, while snuff became popular among upper class society. However, since cigarette manufacturing was industrialized in the second half of the 19th century, the demand for cigarettes has been growing year by year, and currently, more than 80% of the world's leaf tobacco production is consumed as cigarettes.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "chewing tobacco" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…国際競争時代に向けて今後の課題として,労働時間の短縮と規模拡大による低コスト生産,および主産地形成,品質の向上が叫ばれている。【黒田 昭太郎】
【製造タバコ】

[タバコ製品の種類]
 葉タバコを原料として加工したタバコ製品は,〈シガレット〉〈葉巻〉〈刻みタバコ〉〈嚙(か)みタバコ〉〈嗅(か)ぎタバコ〉の五つに分類される。15世紀末にタバコがヨーロッパへ伝えられて以来,ヨーロッパでは葉巻と刻みタバコが,上流社会では嗅ぎタバコが普及していったが,19世紀後半にシガレットの製造が工業化されて以来,シガレットの需要が年々伸びて,現在では,全世界の葉タバコ生産量の8割以上がシガレットとして消費されている。…

※「嚙みタバコ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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