Definition of Tobacco

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Tobacco

An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.

The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.

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Tobacco Quotations

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
William Faulkner

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
Robert E. Lee

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
Chief Joseph

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Babe Ruth

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
Dan Quayle

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Emile Zola

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber

Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.
Martin Van Buren

Tobacco Translations

tobacco in Afrikaans is tabak, twak
tobacco in Dutch is tabak
tobacco in Finnish is tupakka
tobacco in French is tabac, perlot
tobacco in German is Tabak
tobacco in Italian is tabacco
tobacco in Norwegian is tobakk
tobacco in Portuguese is tabaco
tobacco in Spanish is tabaco
tobacco in Swedish is tobak

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