Description
The processes, materials, and techniques to manufacture different types of smoked tobacco products such as cigars, fine cut tobacco, pipe tobacco, and cigarettes.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 5 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 5 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Curing room workerCuring room workers assist in the blending, aging, and fermenting of tobacco strips and stems for the production of cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff. Other titles The following jo…
- Cigar branderCigar branders tend machines that stamp brands on cigar wrappers. They keep machines supplied with all the required input material and observe that processes do not jam. They clean…
- Leaf sorterLeaf sorters analyse colour and condition of tobacco leaves in order to determine whether they should be used as cigar wrappers or binders. They select leaves without visible defec…
- Leaf tierLeaf tiers tie tobacco leaves manually into bundles for processing. They select loose leaves by hand and arrange them with butt ends together. They wind tie leaf around butts.…
- Cigar inspectorCigar inspectors test, sort, sample and weigh cigars in order to find defects and deviations away from the product's specifications. Other titles The following job titles also refe…
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Last updated on February 18, 2026