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Nicotiana rustica, commonly known as Aztec tobacco [2] or strong tobacco, [3] is a rainforest plant in the family Solanaceae native to South America. It is a very potent variety of tobacco , containing up to nine times more nicotine than common species of Nicotiana such as Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco). [ 4 ]
White Burley, similar to Burley tobacco, is the main component in chewing tobacco, American blend pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. In 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted Red Burley seeds he had purchased and found that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look. He transplanted them to the fields anyway, where ...
Perique (/ p ə ˈ r iː k /) is a type of tobacco from Saint James Parish, Louisiana, known for its strong, powerful, and fruity aroma.When the Acadians made their way into this region in 1776, the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were cultivating a variety of tobacco with a distinctive flavor.
Dokha (Arabic: دوخة, "dizziness" or "vertigo") is a tobacco product, consisting of dried and finely shredded tobacco flakes mixed with herbs and spices. It originated in Iran during the 16th century. [1] Unlike hookah tobacco (also called "shisha" or "mu'assel"), dokha is not cured with molasses.
The leaves of a tobacco plant ripen from the bottom to the top and are harvested in a series of "primings" as they become ready. [2] As successive layers of leaves are picked and time passes, nutrients concentrate in the slowest ripening leaves remaining at the top of the plant, resulting in the strongest and most flavorful cigar tobacco. [3]
An expert in tobacco, tobacco products, and tobacciana (objects, accoutrements, and paraphernalia associated with tobacco consumption, and especially items of historical or collectible value)—namely pipes, pipe tobacco, and cigars—including their procurement and sale, is called a tobacconist.
Latakia II by William Michael Harnett, c. 1880. Latakia tobacco (Arabic: تبغ اللاذقية) is a sun-dried and smoke-cured tobacco product. It originated in Syria and is named after its major port city of Latakia, though large production has permanently moved to Cyprus due to varying and compounding sociopolitical issues within Syrian borders.
Pipe smoking is the practice of tasting (or, less commonly, inhaling) the smoke produced by burning a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, in a pipe. It is the oldest traditional form of smoking .