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• n  leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion
• n  aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs

• On the eve of a major international meeting on smoking, Japan's lonely anti-cigarette activists wonder why the nation is still tobacco's best friend.
• Puffing cigarettes, cigars and pipes until the smoke taxed the air conditioning at Miami Beach's plush hotel Fontainebleau, the men who know tobacco best gathered this week .
• Tobacco users could be charged 1 times what nontobacco users are charged.

• baccy
• tobacco plant

News & Articles

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• Fetal Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Tied to Hearing Loss in Teens
  Title: Fetal Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Tied to Hearing Loss in Teens Category: Health News Created: 6/20/2013 4:36:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 6/21/2013 12:00:00 AM
  June 22, 2013 - MedicineNet.com
• Tobacco Tour highlights a shrinking crop
  With fewer farmers growing tobacco, it can be hard for the farmers who are still in the business to find the resources they need.
  June 21, 2013 - The Moultrie Observer
• Tobacco enriches, corrupts northern Philippines
  Tobacco enriches and corrupts in the dry, sun-drenched northern Philippines, where family fortunes as well as political empires are built on the golden leaf.
  June 19, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in AFP
  We've known for years, even decades, about the harmful, addictive, and often deadly effects of tobacco products. Each year, Americans pay nearly 100 billion dollars in added health care costs due to smoking,Obama told reporters at the White...
• Howard Koh in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Cigarettes are finely tuned drug delivery devices, designed to perpetuate a tobacco pandemic,said Howard Koh, an associate dean for public health practice who worked on the analysis. "Yet precise information about these products remains...
• Tom Corbett in Reuters
  We view this cartoon-based advertising campaign as a flagrant violation of the 1998 national tobacco settlement, which includes an outright ban on the use of any cartoon in tobacco advertising,said Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett,...