High quality hand-rolling tobacco, known as shag (tobacco). It was origninally produced and distribution by Douwe Egberts, now produced for European by Imperial Tobacco. Republic Tobacco of Glenview, Illinois makes its own version of Drum for distribution in the United States. Both versions are considered Halfzware (half dark) type tobaccos (a long, fine cut combination of dark Kentucky burley and bright Virginia tobaccos). Shag is fine-cut tobacco for handrolling cigarettes that is cut into strips with a width of up to 1. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Imperial Tobacco PLC is the largest cigarette manufacturer in the UK (but the second largest UK based tobacco company by global sales after British American Tobacco), second largest in Germany and fourth worldwide, following its purchase of Reemtsma Zigarettenfabriken, adding brands such as Davidoff, Peter Stuyvesant and West to its...