It forms the backbone of a mixture
Cigarettes containing Turkish tobacco (which includes those varieties grown in what is now Greece) exclusively continued to be manufactured and sold as "Turkish cigarettes" in the US (brands Murad, Helmar and others), the UK (Sullivan & Powell, Benson & Hedges, Fribourg & Treyer, Balkan Sobranie) and Germany (where the so-called "Orientzigaretten" had the major market share before the Second World War)

In 2010, the Food and Drug Administration was granted sweeping powers by Congress to regulate the tobacco industry, which manifested in [severe restrictions] on the way the industry can advertise and sell cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products, especially marketing efforts designed to appeal to children and teenagers. 20 The dangers of smoking are well understood and documented, but as far back as 1987, a writer in The New York Times lamented that despite [the] overwhelming evidence, 53 million Americans smoked 570 billion cigarettes a year, enough to make the cigarette business in the United States a formidable force
That last argument that tobacco companies are looking out for the poor angers public-health officials because studies show such taxes are especially effective at reducing smoking among lower-income people
In the case of heated tobacco products, tobacco is heated just enough to release a nicotine-containing tobacco aerosol but without burning the tobacco