Top flavors are applied at the end of the primary processing prior to cut filler silo storage and cigarette making. This allows for the application of the "final-touch" of flavoring ingredients creating the products unique aromatic signature.
1917-18: US joins World War I. Those opposed to sending cigarettes to the doughboys are accused of being traitors. According to General John J. Pershing: You ask me what we need to win this war. I answer tobacco as much as bullets.