tobacco description, production, forms n consumption methods.

Data sheet

• Plant name: tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum L.)
• Active Chemical: nicotine

Tobacco production

• Tobacco is a plant cultivated all over the world.
• After drying the leaves, the leaves are fermented in order to get a specific taste.
• The leaves are classed according to their variety and way their are dried.
  • Brown tobacco is dried at air by fire
  • blond tobacco with hot air
  • american taste tobacco left to dry at ambient air or sun.

Tobacco forms

Tobacco is presented in cigarettes, cigars, ready to be rolled, or as chew tobacco.

Tobacco plant

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is a broad-leafed plant of the nightshade family, indigenous to North and South America, whose dried and cured leaves are often smoked in the form of a cigar or cigarette, or in a smoking pipe, or in a water pipe or a hookah. Tobacco is also chewed, "dipped" (placed between the cheek and gum), and consumed as finely powdered snuff tobacco, which is sniffed into the nose. The word "tobacco" is an Anglicization of the Spanish word "tabaco", whose roots are unclear; it is thought to derive from the Native American word "tabago" a y-shaped pipe used in sniffing tobacco powder.