Reconstituted tobacco, yep I know that.
When you split a Phillie blunt the thin outer layer of tobacco leaf is usually removed.
It is a real bit of tobacco leaf to make it look like the cigar is rolled in tobacco leaf, like a proper good quality cigar.
However under the real tobacco leaf exterior, there is tobacco paper made of , you gussed it "reconstituted tobacco".
The outter real tobacco is removed when rolling a blunt as it has a more bitter taste than the reconstituted tobacco paper.
Rizla used to make some papers called "Wheat straw" made from "wheat straw".
They were seriously heavy weight papers and I'm lead to believe this is what people would roll up with in the wild west.
I think it was the Rizla company who first made rice paper papers that are still made to this day.
RizLa+ (ree-la-crwa). The name comes from 'Riz', the French word for rice, and Lacroix, meaning 'The cross'.
'Riz' comes from the fact that the paper is made from rice, and 'Lacroix' is the surname of its creator, Pierre de Lacroix. The paper was originally intended for rolling tobacco but is much more widely used by marijuana smokers today.
In 1660, having perfected the first paper specifically designed for rolling, Philippe Lacroix began production.
Despite the early success, it was not until 76 years later in 1736 that the family acquired their own paper-mill, purchased by François Lacroix, founder of the Lacroix Rolling Paper company.
In 1796 Napoleon granted the Lacroix company a licence to produce rolling papers for his troops.
In 1865, a change was made to the formula—the tissue previously used in the papers was replaced with paper made from rice.
It is this change to rice paper that caused the name "RizLa+" to finally emerge: a combination of the French word Riz (meaning rice) with "La" and a cross, representing the Lacroix family name, which literally means "The Cross".