tobacco
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The tobacco served as a convenient living factory for testing whether the genes could reproduce the plants' chemical process.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
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
That work led to a 2000 article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute demonstrating that HPV-related cases were very different from those related to tobacco or alcohol—and less deadly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
If they were stationed near a village, they could exchange soldier’s luxuries such as tobacco, cigarettes, and sugar for milk and eggs.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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 Carlyle, Thomas
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
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
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
They moved from Owensboro to Louisville and began selling smoking and chewing tobaccos throughout the Ohio Valley, prospering in a comparatively small way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still Wynder believes it may be possible to achieve a significant reduction of tars by using selected tobacco strains or reconstituted tobaccos along with filters.
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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