Reported tobacco industry uses
The tobacco part of most cigarettes (i.e. the shredded brown
interior) is a mixture of the tobacco leaf and a paper-like
product called ‘reconstituted tobacco’. Reconstituted tobacco
is made up of mashed tobacco stems and other parts of the
tobacco leaf that would otherwise be discarded. Tobacco
manufacturers reportedly add guar gum (and its derivatives)
to help bind this reconstituted tobacco in cigarettes. Tobacco
manufacturers also use guar gum to prepare the cigarette
paper that wraps the tobacco.
The amount of guar gum added to bind the tobacco can
make up between 0.6-1.8 % of the total weight of the tobacco
used in one cigarette.