tobacco
Example Sentences
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The WHO helped eradicate smallpox, established a framework that led to a dramatic worldwide reduction in tobacco use and helped control numerous pandemics, from Ebola to mpox to Zika.
From Salon
She was nervous about how a Black woman who had grown up on a tobacco farm would mix with the overwhelmingly white and male scientists at the center.
Investors who bought tobacco companies in the early 2000s still made massive returns for the next two decades.
From MarketWatch
Many of the lawsuits filed against oil and gas giants by state and local authorities are modeled on successful legal actions taken against the tobacco industry in the 1990s.
From Barron's
The improvised prison pens—everything from old army barracks and training camps, barns and fairgrounds, derelict cotton warehouses and tobacco factories—were emptied out.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
