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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
Article · 中文
烟叶或淡巴菰（阿美語：tamako，排灣語：tjamaku，法语：tabac，世界語：tabako，葡萄牙语：tabaco，意大利语：tabàcco，英语：tobacco，阿拉伯语拉丁化字母转换：tubbāq）是茄科烟草属某些物种的俗称，也可以指它们的干叶制品。烟草（學名：Nicotiana tabacum）是主要的烟叶来源，但黄花烟草（學名：Nicotiana rustica）亦可制烟；它们的乾葉可用于製造雪茄、香煙、鼻煙、、嚼煙和有味水煙等尼古丁产品。煙草有时也用于生物種植工程或成为觀賞植物，其化學成分會在一些農藥和藥物中使用。另有其它60多种烟草属植物则很少成为经济作物。
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