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tobacco

[tuh-bak-oh] / təˈbæk oʊ /


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Duke, the tobacco magnate who started Charlotte, N.C., power producer Duke Energy, recognized the hydroelectric potential of Saguenay early in the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

However, the finding does not lessen the well-established dangers of tobacco use.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Cervical cancer screening rates are very low among the poorest and least-educated women; while tobacco use remains higher among less-educated men than among more educated men.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

The City Council unanimously approved a measure to prohibit the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide by cannabis and tobacco retailers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

He lit his pipe, and the scent of tobacco and dried peaches started to cover the smell of spice and wood from the cabin.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

For hobbies he collects pipes, strangely blended tobaccoes, old clocks.

From Time Magazine Archive

One need only put his head in at my door to realize that tobaccoes are of two kinds, the Arcadia and others.

From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast

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 Thomas Carlyle

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 Jared Sparks

Nevertheless, there was one black week when we all smoked the ordinary tobaccoes.

From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast

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

Their current in months' inventories are production, sufficient for whereas about 20 stocks to 23 of aging tobaccos normally are maintained to equal a three-year supply!

From Time Magazine Archive

The few groups that did not benefit from Wall Street's afterthoughts on Lebanon and Iraq were defensive issues such as tobaccos and foods, which have been recession favorites.

From Time Magazine Archive

Closely related species replace each other geographically among the amaranths, beans, chenopods, chili peppers, cottons, squashes, and tobaccos.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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