The contentsanddistributionofPb, Cd and As in 497 flue-curedand17burleytobaccoleafsamples collected from major tobaccoproduction regions of China in 2004 were studied.
Cigarette sales surged again with the introduction of the "White Burley" tobaccoleaf and the invention of the first practical cigarette-making machine, sponsored by tobacco baron James Buchanan "Buck" Duke, in the late 1880s.