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This Gulf Standard provides terms and definitions used in the production, processing and testing of tobacco and tobacco products. It contains many definitions from International Standards on tobacco and tobacco products. References to the most recent of these documents are given where appropriate. This Gulf Standard classifies the terms and definitions under the following headings: 1 Tobacco and tobacco products other than Oriental tobacco 1.1 Types of tobacco and tobacco products 1.2 Smoking 1.3 Smoking machines 1.4 Physical characteristics of tobacco products 1.5 Chemical composition of tobacco and tobacco products and smoke 1.6 to 1.10 Sampling 1.11 Testing of tobacco and tobacco products 2 Terms related to Oriental tobacco 2.1 Structure of Oriental leaf tobacco 2.2 Harvesting of Oriental leaf tobacco 2.3 Baling of Oriental leaf tobacco 3 Terms related to tobacco processing 3.1 Leaf tobacco strips 3.2 Threshed tobacco stem content Annex A gives a list of equivalent terms in English.