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- Tobacco abstract "Tobacco is a plant within the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. There are more than 70 species of tobacco. Products manufactured from dried tobacco leaves include cigars, cigarettes, snuff, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and flavored shisha tobacco. Other uses of tobacco include plant bioengineering and ornamentals, while chemical components of tobacco are used in some pesticides and medications.The chief commercial species, N. tabacum, is believed to have been native to tropical America, like most nicotiana plants, but has been so long cultivated that it is no longer known in the wild. N. rustica, a species producing fast-burning leaves, was the tobacco originally raised in Virginia, but it is now grown chiefly in Turkey, India, and Russia. The addictive alkaloid nicotine is popularly known as the most characteristic constituent of tobacco, but harmful effects of tobacco consumption can derive from the thousands of different chemicals in the smoke, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (such as benzopyrene), formaldehyde, cadmium, nickel, arsenic, tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs), phenols, and many others. Tobacco also contains beta-carboline alkaloids which inhibit monoamine oxidase.Tobacco cultivation is similar to other agricultural products. Seeds are sown in cold frames or hotbeds to prevent attacks from insects, and then transplanted into the fields. Tobacco is an annual crop, which can be harvested mechanically or by hand. After harvest, tobacco is stored for curing, either by hanging, bundling or placing in large piles with tubular vents to allow the heat to escape from the center. Curing allows for the slow oxidation and degradation of carotenoids, causing the product to take on properties that are usually attributed to the "smoothness" of the smoke. Following this, tobacco is processed into its various forms for consumption. Most cigarettes incorporate flue-cured tobacco, which produces a milder, more inhalable smoke. Use of low-pH, inhalable, flue-cured tobacco is one of the principal reasons smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases associated with smoke inhalation.For consumption, tobacco most commonly appears in the forms of smoking, chewing, snuffing, or dipping tobacco. It had long been in use as an entheogen in the Americas, but upon the arrival of Europeans in North America, it quickly became popularized as a trade item and a widely abused drug. This popularization fueled the development of the economy of the southern United States. Following the American Civil War, a change in demand and production techniques allowed for the development of the cigarette. This new product quickly led to the growth of tobacco companies.An estimated 1.1 billion people, and up to 1/3 of the adult population, use tobacco in some form. Rates of smoking have leveled off or declined in developed countries, but continue to rise in developing countries.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally. In a 2008 report, WHO estimated that it causes 5.4 million deaths per year. Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart, liver and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (including emphysema and chronic bronchitis), and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). Also, because of the powerfully addictive properties of tobacco, tolerance and dependence develop.".
- Tobacco thumbnail DunhillLightFlake.jpg?width=300.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink oast.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink 6912.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink legacy.library.ucsf.edu.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink 3300769.stm.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink fs_niru.pdf.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink 2073777259-7269.html.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink tobaccoarchives.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink secondhand-smoke.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink index.htm.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink ahr.111.5.1352.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink PMC1079499.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink archive.html.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink www.savetobaccogrowers.com.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink Tobacco_History.html.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink www.tobaccoleaf.org.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink 2005-11-30-voa79.cfm?CFID=60937799&CFTOKEN=87949569.
- Tobacco wikiPageExternalLink en.
- Tobacco wikiPageID "30942".
- Tobacco wikiPageRevisionID "606717778".
- Tobacco b "Tobacco".
- Tobacco commons "Category:Tobacco".
- Tobacco hasPhotoCollection Tobacco.
- Tobacco n "Category:Tobacco".
- Tobacco q "Tobacco".
- Tobacco s "Tobacco".
- Tobacco v "Category:Tobacco".
- Tobacco wikt "Tobacco".
- Tobacco subject Category:Crops_originating_from_the_Americas.
- Tobacco subject Category:Entheogens.
- Tobacco subject Category:Herbal_and_fungal_stimulants.
- Tobacco subject Category:Leaves.
- Tobacco subject Category:Monoamine_oxidase_inhibitors.
- Tobacco subject Category:Native_American_religion.
- Tobacco subject Category:Nicotinic_antagonists.
- Tobacco subject Category:Tobacco.
- Tobacco comment "Tobacco is a plant within the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. There are more than 70 species of tobacco. Products manufactured from dried tobacco leaves include cigars, cigarettes, snuff, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and flavored shisha tobacco. Other uses of tobacco include plant bioengineering and ornamentals, while chemical components of tobacco are used in some pesticides and medications.The chief commercial species, N.".
- Tobacco label "Tabac".
- Tobacco label "Tabacco".
- Tobacco label "Tabaco".
- Tobacco label "Tabaco".
- Tobacco label "Tabak".
- Tobacco label "Tabak".
- Tobacco label "Tobacco".
- Tobacco label "Tytoń (produkt)".
- Tobacco label "烟草".
- Tobacco sameAs Tabak.
- Tobacco sameAs Καπνός_(φυτό).
- Tobacco sameAs Tabaco.
- Tobacco sameAs Tabac.
- Tobacco sameAs Tembakau.
- Tobacco sameAs Tabacco.
- Tobacco sameAs 담배_(식물).
- Tobacco sameAs Tabak.
- Tobacco sameAs Tytoń_(produkt).
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- Tobacco sameAs Q1566.
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- Tobacco wasDerivedFrom Tobacco?oldid=606717778.
- Tobacco depiction DunhillLightFlake.jpg.
- Tobacco isPrimaryTopicOf Tobacco.