tobacco

thumb|Tobacco drying kiln in Myrtleford|Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia, 2018. This kiln was built in 1957, and moved to Rotary Park in 2000. Kilns of this design were built from the early 1930s through to the late 1960s. thumb |Basma tobacco leaves drying in the sun at Pomak village in [[Xanthi, Greece]]

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Tobacco is a plant whose leaves are dried and processed for various uses, historically including smoking and other consumption methods. It matters because tobacco cultivation has been economically significant in many regions worldwide, with specialized infrastructure like drying kilns developed to process the crop for commercial use.

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Key facts

Botanical product.legal_status: In general, legal and regulated as a controlled substance for adult recreational use in most countries, tobacco smuggling or homemade tobacco making or growing is illegal in some areas. See tobacco controlFootnote:Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1
Botanical product.name: Tobacco
Botanical product.image: DunhillLightFlake.jpg
Botanical product.caption: Tobacco flakes, sliced from pressed plugs
Botanical product.plant: Nicotiana
Botanical product.part: Leaf
Botanical product.origin: The Americas
Botanical product.active: Nicotine, harmine
Botanical product.uses: Recreational, Sacred, Medical, Religious, Traditional, Peacemaking
Botanical product.legal_AU: Unscheduled
Botanical product.legal_BR: E
Botanical product.legal_CA: Unscheduled
Botanical product.legal_DE: Unscheduled
Botanical product.legal_UK: GSL
Botanical product.legal_US_comment: Unscheduled
Botanical product.legal_UN: Unscheduled

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Encyclopedic overview

51 sections

Contents

Etymology
History
Cultural significance
Traditional use
Popularization
Contemporary
Biology
''Nicotiana''
Types
Parasites
Production
Cultivation
Curing
Global production
Trends
Major producers
China
India
Brazil
Lebanon
Problems in production
Child labor
Economy
Environment
Research
Genetic modification
Field trials
Production
Consumption
Anogenital
Buccal
Inhalation
Nasal
Topical
Influence
Social
Religion
Christianity
Islam
Sikhism
Demographics
Health effects
Chemicals
Radioactivity
Economic
Advertising
Legality
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. Seventy-nine species of tobacco are known, but the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent variant N. rustica is also used in some countries.

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