Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the Nicotiana genus and the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of the tobacco plant. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent variant N. rustica is also used around the world. Tobacco contains the highly addictive stimulant alkaloid nicotine as well as harmala alkaloids. Dried tobacco leaves are mainly used for smoking in cigarettes and cigars, as well as pipes and shishas. They can also be consumed as snuff, chewing …

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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 November 2024 English

“This book is absolutely amazing and one of the most original collections that I have read in many years. Intended for everyone who inhabits Turtle Island—Indigenous and settler alike—Manomin encourages …

fields and begin harvesting, they put asemaa (tobacco) into the water for the Creator, asking the winds The people sought out this island and placed tobacco on its shore. . . . Here, the Waterdrum made its ” which is dominated by maize, beans, squash, tobacco, and “wild” plants like chenopods, knot- weed,


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …

excited. There was something about the tips of her tobacco-stained fingers I liked. The way Carole smoked first teacher. I’d come to connect the smell of tobacco to worldliness and sexiness. I explained how I


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

underneath, and a green- and- white Macdonalds Tobacco tin drum and cigarette papers stacked beside her


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English

Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …

the banks of the Tiétar River, there are huge tobacco plantations that give you an idea of what the climate


Fraser Institute · 18 October 2024 English

The ESG acronym stands for a range of environmental, social, and governance initiatives that critics of shareholder capitalism suggest public companies should voluntarily implement to improve the well-being of society. …

for propagandizing against climate science and tobacco and software gaming companies for pushing addictive


NSP: New Society Publishers · 8 October 2024 English

Everyone's guide to using the power of science to produce healthier and tastier fruits and vegetables From garden to fork, Food Science for Gardeners is everyone's guide to optimizing the …

just one of thousands of chemicals found in the tobacco plant. In the low doses found in cigarette smoke


ULCC: Uniform Law Conference of Canada · 27 September 2024 English

RESOLVED: THAT the report of the working group on Drafting Conventions be accepted; and THAT the Drafting Conventions be adopted; and THAT, having adopted the Drafting Conventions, the ULCC recognizes …

were used in public health cases (asbestos and tobacco, for example), and then later in employment disputes


ITK: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami · 17 September 2024 English

Layout 1 2023.2024 A N N U A L R E P O R T About Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) is the national representative organization for 70,000 …

Inuit Human Resources Technical Committee Inuit Tobacco Control Working Group National Inuit Marine Committee


McMaster Health Forum · 16 September 2024 English

COVID-19 Living Evidence Synthesis 13.2c - appendices: Effectiveness of quarantine on the reduction of the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs: i.e., COVID-19, H1N1, SARS, and MERS)

with changes in Wrong physical activity, sleep, tobacco and alcohol use in Australian adults intervention


McMaster Health Forum · 16 September 2024 English

COVID-19 Living Evidence Synthesis 13.2b - appendices: Unintended health and social consequences of isolation and quarantine for respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs: i.e., COVID-19, H1N1, SARS, and MERS)

with changes in Wrong physical activity, sleep, tobacco and alcohol use in Australian adults intervention


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