Before accessing the interior of the extraction unit, two operators put on a mask with assisted ventilation which makes their voices distant.
“Once purified, if the equivalent of a drop fell on our skin, it would cause cardiac arrest
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exclaims Charly Pairaud, co-founder of the company VDLV, manufacturer of e-liquids for electronic cigarettes.
A sort of giant still, it is in this unit that looks like a microrefinery that pure nicotine is extracted from tobacco leaves grown in France.
“We are helping to revive an agricultural practice which is disappearing here, because tobacco is now imported from India, China or Brazil…”
, continues this farmer’s grandson.
In the aisles of the warehouse stand boxes bearing the name of each farmer in the Périgord Tabac cooperative.
According to the European Commission, 335 die-hard French farmers produced 2,840 tonnes of tobacco on an area of 1,121 hectares, in 2022. A production…
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