tobacco
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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
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51 sectionsContents
- 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
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]]
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.