Excerpts: Ten years ago cigarette paper, made chiefly from linen rags, was imported from Europe. Now it is made from American flax straw. On the day that the Second World War broke out, the first commercial roll of cigarette paper made entirely from flax straw came off a machine at Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. Now it is turned out at the rate of 50 or 60 tons a day, more than enough to make the 250 billion cigarettes smoked each year in the United States. Besides supplying domestic requirements, American cigarette paper is shipped to nearly every tobacco-consuming country in the world. The principal types of paper made from the fiber of flax straw include cigarette paper, carbon paper, condenser paper used in electrical condensers, high-grade letter paper for air-mail correspondence, and thin book paper. About 80 percent of the flax tow used in the manufacture of cigarette paper is produced in Minnesota, some 10 percent in California, and the remainder in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa. Tow mills are located at Red Lake Falls, Crookston, Marshall, Minneapolis, Le Roy, and Winona, Minn., and at El Centro, Calif. Besides the fiber produced in tow mills, much straw is processed by means of portable decorticating machines which move from farm to farm.