> No, read 'floor' as 'floor'. It's the same with cheap tobacco, and that is 
> always known as 'sweepings' i.e., 'floor sweepings'.

Tobacco is always a very attractive target for counterfeiters because the 
taxes are usually so high.  An illegal company can easily sell their product 
cheaper and still make a huge profit, just because they don't have to pay 
the taxes.

In the cigarette industry the counterfeiters often use very similar 
factories to the legitimate companies, even using the same (corrupt) 
suppliers too for the important parts (like the packaging of course, not the 
actual contents!).

BTW, it is completely normal for "floor sweepings" to be put into 
cigarettes, in a legal factory the amount is so tiny compared to the fresh 
tobacco incoming, and the place is clean to food production standards, it 
really is no problem.

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