Worker, tobacco leaf conditioning

Tobacco preparers and tobacco products makers prepare and process tobacco leaves and make various tobacco products.

• sorting cured tobacco leaves by type, quality and growing location;
• blending tobacco leaves according to formulas to obtain blends with specific flavours;
• operating vacuum chambers to moisten tobacco for further processing;
• stemming and cutting tobacco leaves;
• making cigarettes, papirosi, cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, snuff and chewing tobacco by hand or machine.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Master, cigarettes
• Master, cigars
• Grader, tobacco
• Worker, variety grading