Tobacco: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	common tobacco • Nicotiana tabacum • cultivated tobacco

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Rows of green Nicotiana tabacum tobacco plants growing in soil, showing broad, bright leaves and healthy foliage.

Rows of tobacco leaves drying on wooden racks in a red soil field in Vinales Valley, Cuba, with green hills and rocky cliffs in the background.

Rows of harvested tobacco leaves hang from rafters inside an open-sided red and white barn in Kentucky, curing in the shade.

(Left) Wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), about 3 feet high, and (right) cultivated tobacco (N. tabacum), about 4 12 feet

Japanese tobacco pouch

Transporting tobacco

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