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- Category: anti smoking
- Federal judge blocks anti-smoking images required on tobacco products
- Anti-tobacco funding gone up in smoke
- Potsdam's Tobacco Cessation Center offers a quitting smoking plan for 2012
- North Carolina Prevention Partners recognizes FirstHealth hospitals
- Study Documents Toll Of Smoke Inhalation Injuries
- Passive Smoking
- The history, economics and hazards of tobacco
- Antismoking proposals in Japan are stubbed out by the government-big business alliance
- Health groups weigh in on graphic cigarette label suit
- Battle Against Smoking Goes Back Centuries
- Global Community to Accelerate Action Against Tobacco Smoking
- Time for action in New York
- Antitobacco programs underfunded, WHO says
- No Progress On Nitrosamine Levels In U.S. Cigarettes
- Smoking ban linked to reduction in heart attacks
- World-first plain packaging for tobacco products becomes law in Australia
- Extreme negative anti-smoking ads can backfire
- Reason for Depression When Smokers Quit
- We're off the cigarettes but still struggling with alcohol and drugs
- Cigarette Alternatives Threatening Anti-Smoking Progress
- Australia Brings Tobacco Legislation to Parliament
- Chantix Raises Heart Attack Risk: Study
- Santa Monicans react to new graphic cigarette warning labels
- As smoking bans grow, it's adapt or quit
- The dying breed of traditional 'beedi tasters'
- The battle of the butts
- Iraq Takes Aim at Smoking
- Australia Wants to Be the First State to Introduce Plain Packaging
- Navajo president cannot ban smoking in public place
- Partial smoking ban on Atlantic City casino floors has little effect
- Sparrow will test for tobacco use for new hires only
- Activists wield Disabilities Act in fight for smoke-free casinos
- Teenage smoking is on the rise
- China Has Serious Smoking Problems
- Pricey cigarettes mean fewer teens smoke
- Babies Who Sleep With Smoker Parents Exhibit High Nicotine Levels
- Anti-smoking lawmakers clashed with Oregon's tobacco lobbyist
- Possible EU initiative on secondhand smoke at workplace
- DOD Representatives Call Military Men to Stop Smoking
- Australia – Leading Nation in Antismoking Efforts
- Are anti-smoking efforts going up in smoke?
- Lawmakers Reduced Funding for Anti-smoking Programs
- Why Americans aren’t living longer
- Major Reason For Shorter Life Spans in U.S.
- Marin cities fare poorly in group's tobacco control report card
- California Revamps Its Campaign Against Smoking
- How to Quit Smoking
- Spain anti-smoking law
- New York’s Anti-Smoking Campaigns Should be Improved
- Female Celebrity Caught Smoking While Pregnant
- Most restaurants, bars embrace smoke-free law in Virginia
- State Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco-Dependence Treatments - United States, 2009
- Russian government has approved a national anti-smoking program
- Can lasers help you stop smoking?
- Spending money on anti-smoking efforts has long-term economic impact
- Anti-Tobacco Organizations Criticize Tobacco-Sponsored Competitions
- Block thoughts of cigarette
- Smoking’s impact on health 'catastrophic'
- African Tobacco Growers Threatened by WHO Anti-Smoking Treaty
- Navy Bans Tobacco Use on Its Submarine Fleet
- Cigarette Retailers Sue to Block Rule Requiring Antismoking Posters
- Albany Lawmakers Pass Big Cuts in Health Care
- Substance Abuse In The Life Of American Adolescents
- Higher cigarette prices cannot help smokers quit
- Why do Teens Find it Harder to Quit Smoking?
- Program targets pregnant smokers
- Graphic Warnings Should Decrease the Smoking-Related Diseases
- WHO warns tobacco firms targeting women and girls
- Exposure to smoking in movies among British adolescents
- Oil spill science: The smoking gun
- Tobacco graphic campaign
- New York's anti-smoking fund cut, smoking rises
- Violent video games’ effects on children
- Future of anti-smoking program unclear
- Passiv Smoking and Children
- Effects of Passive Smoking on the Young
- Cigarette ads can fuel teens' smoking desires
- Foundation expands focus to include childhood obesity
- For tobacco, a real drag
- A global view on smoking bans
- World Cancer Day 2010 - "Cancer Can Be Prevented Too"
- Controversial Anti-smoking Ordinance is Introduced in Wyoming
- Smoking, obesity top state health issues
- American Lung Association Report: Most States Flunk for Neglecting to Prevent Tobacco-Caused Disease
- Still Exist States with Highest Smoking Rate
- Massachusetts Antismoking Plan Gets Attention
- Push to ban smoking by 2020 continues
- Stamping out tobacco
- North Carolina prods obese workers, smokers toward healthier lifestyles
- Research of Cancer Risk
- Most Emirates already curbing the use of tobacco
- Anti-Tobacco Legislation Experienced New Modifications
- Despite reasons to quit, number of smokers rises
- Smoking: why women are at great risk
- Chileans are still the heaviest smokers despite a strict anti-tobacco law
- Real Meaning of the FDA's Anti E-Cigarettes
- Tobacco tax-hike campaign gears up
- Anti-smoking legislation is an infringement of individual rights
- Why France Might Put Warning Labels on Airbrushed Photos
Tobacco is an annual or bi-annual growing 1-3 meters tall with large sticky leaves that contain nicotine. Native to the Americas, tobacco has a long history of use as a shamanic inebriant and stimulant. It is extremely popular and well-known for its addictive potential.
Nicotiana rustica leaves.
Nicotiana rustica leaves have a nicotine content as high as 9%, whereas Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco) leaves contain about 1 to 3%
A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sumatra, Philippines, and the Eastern United States.
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines. In consumption it may be in the form of cigarettes smoking, snuffing, chewing, dipping tobacco, or snus.
