Types of tobacco include:

• Aromatic fire-dried foods  are cured using smoke from an open fire. In the United States, it is grown in northern middle  Tennessee  , central  Kentucky  , and  Virginia  . Fire-cured tobacco grown in Kentucky and Tennessee is used in some chewing tobacco, moist snuff, some cigarettes, and as a spice in pipe tobacco blends. Another fire-cured tobacco is  Latakia, which is made from oriental varieties of N. tabacum  is produced  . The leaves are  cured and smoked over smoldering fires of local hardwoods and aromatic shrubs in  Cyprus  and  Syria .
• Brightleaf tobacco  is commonly referred to as “Virginia tobacco,” often regardless of which state it is grown in. Before the  American Civil War  , most tobacco grown in the United States was fire-cured dark leaf tobacco. Sometime after the  War of 1812,  the demand for a milder, lighter, and more flavorful tobacco arose.  Ohio  ,  Pennsylvania  , and  Maryland  all innovated with milder varieties of the tobacco plant. Farmers discovered that light-leaf tobacco required thin, starved soil, and those who could not grow other crops found that they could grow tobacco. Confederate soldiers traded it with each other and with Union soldiers and developed a great fondness for it. At the end of the war, the soldiers went home and a national market for the local crops had developed.
• Broadleaf  , a dark tobacco family known for producing huge, tough and thick wrappers.  ^[33]
• Burley tobacco  is an air-cured tobacco   used primarily for making cigarettes . In the United States, burley tobacco plants are grown in March or April from pelleted seeds placed in Styrofoam trays and floated on a bed of fertilized water.
• Cavendish  is more of a curing process and method of cutting tobacco than a variety. The processing and cutting serve to highlight the natural sweet taste of the tobacco. Cavendish can be made from any type of tobacco, but is typically one or a blend of Kentucky, Virginia and Burley and is most commonly used in pipe tobacco and cigars.
• Criollo tobacco  is primarily used to make  cigars  . By most accounts, it was one of the original Cuban tobaccos released during the time of   Columbus .
• Dokha  is a tobacco originally grown in  Iran  , mixed with leaves, bark and herbs for smoking in a  midwakh  .
• Perique  was developed in 1824 through the technique of pressure fermentation of local tobacco by farmer Pierre Chenet. It  is considered the  truffle  of  pipe tobacco  and is used as an ingredient in many pipe tobaccos, but is too strong to be smoked straight. In the past, the freshly moist perique was also chewed, but today it is no longer sold for this purpose. Typically it is mixed with pure Virginia to add spice, strength and coolness to the mixture.
• Shade tobacco  is grown in  Connecticut  and  Massachusetts  .  Connecticut's  early  colonists adopted the habit of smoking tobacco in pipes from Native Americans and began growing the plant commercially, despite the  Puritans  labeling it a "nasty weed." The  shade industry in Connecticut has some big ones  It has survived  disasters , including a devastating  hailstorm  in 1929 and an epidemic of brown spot fungus in 2000, and is in danger of disappearing given rising property values.
• Turkish tobacco  is a sun-dried, highly aromatic, small-leaved variety (  Nicotiana tabacum )  grown  in Turkey, Greece,  Bulgaria  and  North Macedonia . Originally grown in regions that were historically part of the  Ottoman Empire  , it is also known as “oriental”. Many of the early brands of cigarettes were made largely or entirely from Turkish tobacco. Its main uses were blends of pipe and especially cigarette tobacco (a typical American cigarette is a blend of light Virginia, Burley and Turkish).
•  Air-dried white burley leaf has been found to be milder than other types of tobacco. In 1865, George Webb of  Brown County, Ohio, planted red burley seeds  he had purchased   and noticed that some of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly appearance, which became white burley.
• Wild tobacco  comes from the southwestern United States, Mexico and parts of South America. Its botanical name is  Nicotiana Rustica