SUMMARYOne sample each of aged uncased, cured Bright lamina, Bright stems, Burley lamina and Burley stems were examined by a variety of general analytical methods and then characterized by our standard fractionation procedure. These tobacco samples were chosen to be reasonably representative of the tobaccos used in current commercial cigll;l'ette productso Although for a given variety of tobacco the concentrations of chemical constituents may vary as a function of stalk position, cultural management, geographic origin or crop year, we believe that the following conclusions based on these samples are generally valid: {1) levels of ethanol solubles, total reducing sugars and starch are much higher in Bright than in Burley, [