AI overview
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