A professional who examines plain or filter-tipped cigarettes or filters to ensure that quality of product conforms to standards. Respnsibilities include:

• Inspects cigarettes or filters produced to detect imperfections, such as loose ends, stems, stemholes, defective glue lines, and defectively attached filters.
• Examines cigarettes, attached filters, and filters rejected by cigarette-making-machine catcher and cigarette inspector and discards inferior products.
• Notifies cigarette-making-machine operator of deviations from standards.
• Records number of cigarettes found with defects and compiles summary production sheets.
• Verifies and totals figures posted by cigarette inspector.