Before we dig the short story of Tangiers Tobacco, maybe some of you still don't know the complete ingredients of shisha and how it's made. The main components of shisha tobacco are the tobacco leaves themselves, then honey, glycerin and natural fruit flavours. A brief explanation of the manufacturing process is that first the tobacco leaves are dried/dried, then soaked in plain water to re-moisten them.
To reduce the high levels of nicotine, specifically for the manufacture of Tangiers Birquq series, the stems are set aside, and then the selected tobacco leaves are cut into small pieces. After that, honey and glycerin are added, then baked. After baking, fruit flavoring is added to it and then it is stored under special conditions for a certain period of time.
For those of you who are new to hookah or shisha, you will assume that shisha tobacco is made from tobacco leaves and contains the same nicotine as regular cigarettes. However, most of the "smoke" is actually glycerin vapor that is used in most mist machines, where Glycerin is approved by the FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration) as a safe ingredient for inhalation. With the shisha method, from the tobacco you smoke, you get less tar than with regular smoking. This makes them harmless and should not be addictive. However, for those of you who are related to lung and mouth cancer, heart disease, and other serious illnesses, it is still highly recommended not to smoke even by means of shisha/hookah.
Tangiers is also popular throughout the shisha community though mostly only among veteran shisha enthusiasts, favored for the strength of the tobacco and its "buzzing" sensation. The tobacco leaves are picked manually by hand and Tangiers (for the Burley Series) does not process or alter them in any way, which gives them a unique, natural taste. Tangiers Burley series is defined as the strongest shisha tobacco produced today. For the Burley series, Tangiers has the highest nicotine percentage of 0.3% compared to most other brands.
So that everyone can enjoy it, Tangiers now presents the Birquq series. Unlike for the Burley series, in manufacturing, the tobacco leaves for the Birquq series are set aside to reduce nicotine levels. The order of the Tangiers series based on their nicotine content starting from the lowest is Birquq, Noir, Burley. The F-Line series has the same nicotine content as the Noir series, it's just that there is an additional caffeine content in it.
Tangiers manufacturing is in San Diego, California – United States. The history of the discovery of Tangiers is quite interesting, because a well-known chemist named Eric Hoffman Ph.D (1971-2021) had a hand in it, experimenting based on the taste of tobacco as well as its properties, oriented towards perfection according to what he liked at that time. As a result, the prototype of the first molasses tobacco, now known under the brand name Tangiers, appeared. According to the official website, this event took place before the emergence of other brands whose tobacco processing was carried out in a modern way. To make the product unique, the scientist personally signed each package and assigned a number to it.
