This weeks video is a tobacco plant. This is for educational purposes ... More specifically, N. rustica leaves have a nicotine content as high as 9%, whereas N. tabacum leaves contain about ...

Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

In tobacco, the highest concentration of nicotine appears in the plant's topmost leaves. A poisonous alkaloid, nicotine at high dosages has been used in everything from insecticides to darts ...

The tobacco plant’s origins can now be traced back to Bolivia, in South America. The people native to this land cultivated the plant and used it as part of their cultural traditions. Between ...

TOBACCO farmers face a headache as the destructive Fusarium Wilt Disease (FWD), which targets the gold leaf, has spread to ...