General tobacco

General tobacco

A product that is processed by dry plant leaves of the genus Nicotiana. Tobacco is most commonly used as a drug, but can also be used as a pesticide. It is the product that is used in cigars and cigarettes, chewing tobacco, snuff, and flavored shisha.

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Second-hand smoke

Tobacco; General tobacco

Also called passive smoking or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). A mixture of smoke exhaled by smokers and smoke released from smouldering cigarettes, cigars, pipes, bidis, etc. The smoke mixture ...

Self-efficacy

Tobacco; General tobacco

The belief that one will be able to change one's behaviour, e.g. To quit smoking.

Shade grown

Tobacco; General tobacco

Prime tobacco leaf grown under cheesecloth tenting called a "tapado" to produce a thin, elastic tobacco leaf that is most often used in premium cigars.

Scotch snuff

Tobacco; General tobacco

A form of dry snuff, traditionally used in the USA, that is either administered orally or nasally. The product typically contains fermented fire-cured tobacco and has a moisture content between 4 and ...

Seco

Tobacco; General tobacco

One of three basic types of filler tobacco. The name means "dry" in Spanish.

Abstinence

Tobacco; General tobacco

A period of being quit, i.e. Stopping the use of cigarettes or other tobacco products. May be defined in various ways; see also: point prevalence abstinence; prolonged abstinence; continuous/sustained ...

Corncob

Tobacco; General tobacco

Normally associated with the great smoking country of America. Daniel Boone was said to have smoked a "Missouri Meerschaum. " As the name suggests the corncob pipe is made from a corn cob, now ...