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tobacco

[tuh-bak-oh] / təˈbæk oʊ /


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Lifestyle factors — such as diet, sleep, regular exercise, managing blood pressure and blood sugar, avoiding tobacco and alcohol — can reduce the risk of dementia by up to 45%, Tan said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

They need to start acting that way or their trillion-dollar valuations may become a target much larger than the tobacco companies in the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 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

Most had never smoked and were diagnosed with a form of lung cancer that differs biologically from the type typically caused by tobacco use.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

He’d often smelled of the same sort of tobacco, aromatic, a little strong, but, unlike cigarette smoke, pleasant.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

For hobbies he collects pipes, strangely blended tobaccoes, old clocks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sentries, outposts and vedettes forbear musketry; on the contrary, exchange tobaccoes sometimes, and have a snatch of conversation.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle

Latakia, Shiraz, Manila, Cuba, Virginia, and Maryland produce the most valuable tobaccoes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various

It is not even a good mixture, for I used to try it occasionally; and if there is one man in London who knows tobaccoes it is myself.

From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Nevertheless, there was one black week when we all smoked the ordinary tobaccoes.

From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast

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

The few groups that did not benefit from Wall Street's afterthoughts on Lebanon and Iraq were defensive issues such as tobaccos and foods, which have been recession favorites.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the home of fine Havana tobaccos, Hill is not honored.

From Time Magazine Archive

They eagerly traded harsh burley tobaccos then popular for the mild and sweet-tasting bright tobacco they found in Durham.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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