CIGARETTE PAPER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 41, 3 October 1911, Page 3

CIGARETTE PAPER.

Of the great army of cigarette smokers there is probably not more than one in a hundred who knows that rice paper, in which the tobacco is wrapped, has nothing to do with lice, but is made from the membranes

;f the breadfruit tree, or, more commonly, of fine trimmings of flax and hemp. So light is this paper that o()() of the tiny sheets go to make an Mince. I ney are perfectly combnstablc, and give off the minimum of "moke.

IJefore being rolled with tobacco they are analysed to prove that they are free from ail delesterions ingredients, and that they contain notating but the purest paper fibre. Only new material—llax and hemp trimmings—is used, and these are thoroughly purified. Chopped by machinery into minute particles, they are well mixed by a revolving fan, and then reduced to a dust, which is placed in solution of lime and soda. Alter remaining in this solution for some time, in order that all forego substances may be eliminated, it undergoes a thorough washing process, the water being tlie purest kind, coming from artesian wells sunk especially fur the purpose. Then the pulp is rolled out into paper. At first it is of a greyish tinge, the pure white of the finished product being obtained by ■>• oi 'c tric process, which in bleaching it also, cleans it of whatever impnritimight have escaped the bath.

Tl.f I'Vcndi manufacturers of cigarpaper now practically supply tho entire worM, t’ho output of Austria alld Italy being insignificant.—Science Siftings.