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  2. Nicotiana tabacum - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually grown herbaceous plant of the genus Nicotiana. N. tabacum is the most commonly grown species in the genus Nicotiana, as the plant's leaves are commercially harvested to be processed into tobacco for human use. The plant is tropical in origin, is commonly grown throughout the world ...

  3. Chewing tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Chewing tobacco. Chewing tobacco is a type of smokeless tobacco product that is placed between the cheek and lower gum to draw out its flavor. It consists of coarsely chopped aged tobacco that is flavored and often sweetened; it is not ground fine like dipping tobacco. Unwanted juices are spat while chewing.

  4. Tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco use is a cause or risk factor for many deadly diseases, especially those affecting the heart, liver, and lungs [ 2 ] as well as many cancers. In 2008, the World Health Organization named tobacco use as the world's single greatest preventable cause of death. [ 3 ] In Minas Gerais, Brazil.

  5. Connecticut shade tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Connecticut shade tobacco. Connecticut shade tobacco is a tobacco grown under shade in the Connecticut River valley of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and southern Vermont. It is used primarily for binder and wrapper for premium cigars, and is prized for its color and quality, its subtle sweetness and elegant, refined flavor.

  6. Cultivation of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    The tobacco is germinated in cold frames or hotbeds and then transplanted to the field until it matures. It is grown in warm climates with rich, well-drained soil. About 4.2 million hectares of tobacco were under cultivation worldwide in 2000, yielding over seven million tonnes of tobacco.

  7. Coca - Wikipedia

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    UN: Narcotic Schedule I. Controlled unless decocainized, in general legal for religious, medical or traditional use, legal in South America except in Brazil and Paraguay. Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. Coca is known worldwide for its psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine.

  8. Nicotiana rustica - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  9. Tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Overall, it is estimated that 5.66 million adults in the US population reported current vaping 2.3%. From those users in the population, more than 2.21 million were current cigarette smokers (39.1%), more than 2.14 million were former smokers (37.9%), and more than 1.30 million were never smokers (23.1%). [9]