The local tobacco boom comes despite a devastating 2023 season, when heavy rain and flooding wiped out roughly 70% of the ...

The iconic Connecticut shade tobacco fields have been replaced by parking lots and warehouses as demand changed. Today, only ...

Charred seeds found in an ancient hearth in what’s now Utah suggest that humans used tobacco more than 12,000 years ago – 9,000 years earlier than previously documented.

Tobacco is one on a long list of natural products—including coffee, tea, alcohol, opiates and many psychedelic plants and fungi—that humans have sought throughout the ages as means to ...

Tobacco is taking a beating from politicians and cigarette companies, and many farmers are looking for new ways to make a living. Growers are using some creative ideas to keep food on everyone's ...

Archaeologists said they've found evidence that people have been ingesting tobacco as long as 12,300 years ago in a recent find in Utah. Cigarettes pictured in Bristol, England, 2015. Matt Cardy ...

Three 400-year-old tobacco seeds recovered recently from the ooze of a colonial well in Jamestown appear to be the first and earliest-known evidence of cultivation by English colonists of a plant ...

Normal tobacco seeds (left) are dense and germinate; seeds from plants with the mitochondrial gene deletion (right) are mostly hollow and don’t germinate. Photo courtesy of Ralph Dewey, NC State ...

Tobacco may carry negative connotations with it now, but the tobacco plant has been used for thousands of years. Just how many thousands, though, may have just undergone a big change. Researchers from ...

Tobacco plants are toxic and not eaten by birds or animals, he explained. Also, tobacco doesn’t grow in wetlands, so it must have been brought from elsewhere.