tobacco
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After identifying a promising collection of genes from wolfsbane and larkspur, the researchers transferred those genetic instructions into tobacco plants.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Analysis showed that the modified tobacco plants had assembled the pathway the team was seeking.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Up to 45 percent of dementia risk could be prevented or delayed, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, citing modifiable risk factors such as tobacco and air pollution.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
For decades, oncologists blamed cancers of the mouth and throat on excessive use of tobacco or alcohol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
If crops failed or prices for tobacco and wheat fell, as they often did, farmers went into debt.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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For hobbies he collects pipes, strangely blended tobaccoes, old clocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Latakia, Shiraz, Manila, Cuba, Virginia, and Maryland produce the most valuable tobaccoes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
I have given orders to the Farmers-General to treat in preference, and at a reasonable price, for the purchase of the tobaccoes of North America.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Sparks, Jared
One need only put his head in at my door to realize that tobaccoes are of two kinds, the Arcadia and others.
From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Prendergast, Maurice Brazil
Nevertheless, there was one black week when we all smoked the ordinary tobaccoes.
From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Prendergast, Maurice Brazil
The shift from traditional smoking of indigenous tobaccos and other plants to commercial tobaccos has had “significant deleterious effects on tribal culture and health,” the study said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2018
“It’s something we’ve been planning for,” said David Sylvia, a spokesman for Altria Group, the parent company of John Middleton, which manufactures the popular Black & Mild cigar brand and a variety of pipe tobaccos.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2013
Both grew up fighting the old tobacco trust, both, until recently, were heads of small independent companies producing chiefly pipe and chewing tobaccos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Greek syndicates of gamblers; the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, merchant of death; tens of thousands of Greek traders in fruits, tobaccos, steamships have carried on the Ulysses tradition of wandering, guile and gain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Closely related species replace each other geographically among the amaranths, beans, chenopods, chili peppers, cottons, squashes, and tobaccos.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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