(n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
(n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Example Sentences:
(1) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
(2) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(3) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(4) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(5) The history of tobacco production and marketing is sketched, and the literature on chronic diseases related to smoking is summarized for the Pacific region.
(6) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
(7) This structure could be constructed in intron 1 of tobacco rps12 gene.
(8) An important stratification factor, however, was related to tobacco usage.
(9) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(10) These regions are also conserved in chloroplast DNA of tobacco.
(11) The policy was effective in reducing perceived environmental tobacco smoke exposure in work areas where smoking was banned but not in nonwork areas where smoking was allowed in designated areas.
(12) The group of tobacco smoking persons showed during rest, loads and in the restorative period more distinct disorders of cardio-vascular system values.
(13) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
(14) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
(15) The present article reports a study of how such lifestyle habits, notably alcohol and tobacco consumption, are addressed in medical consultations.
(16) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
(17) However, most of these studies are difficult to interpret because they do not correctly take into account associated carcinogens such as tobacco smoke and other occupational carcinogens.
(18) The acute effects of smokeless tobacco (ST) on buccal mucosal transport and barrier function were studied by means of in vivo and in vitro techniques.
(19) The predilection of localization of epidermoid and small cell carcinomas in the upper lobes suggests a possible relationship to tobacco smoke inhalation as these regions have been shown to be more affected by the smoke.
(20) We have isolated an auxin-regulated cDNA, parB, from the early stage of cultured tobacco mesophyll protoplasts.
Tobacconist
Definition:
(n.) A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
(n.) A smoker of tobacco.
Example Sentences:
(1) France’s tobacconists are protesting against plans to force cigarette companies to use plain, unbranded packaging by disabling traffic speed cameras.
(2) While the tobacconists have preferred direct action, tobacco manufacturers are taking the legal route, reporting the legislation to the European court of justice.
(3) James Yu, who runs the King of the Pack tobacconist in central Sydney, said the uniform packaging made it harder to stack his shelves "It used to take me an hour to unload a delivery, now it takes me four hours," Yu said.
(4) The cat was taken in by Yoichi Maeda, a local editor, who asked the tobacconist’s owner, Kaori Hasegawa, to look after her during the day in the hope that she would bring some luck to local businesses affected by the disaster.
(5) BFM TV showed a group of tobacconists wearing white masks on a night-time radar-hooding expedition.
(6) The confederation claims there are nearly 27,000 tobacconists in France, more than half of them operating as bars, employing a total of 100,000 people.
(7) In other parts of the country, furious tobacconists put plastic bags over traffic cameras with the slogan: “Getting rid of tobacconists will not reduce smoking.
(8) Luther Pendragon's Brussels office has also been working for the European Retailers and Tobacconists Association.
(9) French tobacconists dump four tonnes of carrots on street in cigarette protest Read more Nine years ago, France controversially banned smoking in enclosed public spaces , including bars and restaurants.
(10) He is especially eloquent on the latter’s performance as Abel Drugger, the easily tricked tobacconist in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.
(11) It may be the year of the monkey in Japan , but people from across the country are reportedly flocking to a tiny tobacconist north of Tokyo for an encounter with a cat that has ”lucky eyebrows”.
(12) Shops (except specialist tobacconists), shopping centres and markets.
(13) But yesterday René Le Pape, president of the tobacconists' confederation, said bars and cafes would need more than a year to prepare, and warned that the ban would destroy small country businesses.
(14) He drifted through dead-end jobs – stable boy, farm hand, errand boy, pawnbroker's clerk, leather worker, tobacconist and gents' outfitter's assistant – maintaining afterwards that the only one that gave him satisfaction was the tobacconist's kiosk in Piccadilly, where he bought American cigarettes from a US sergeant and sold them profitably to selected customers.
(15) After dumping the vegetables against the gates of the party headquarters at Rue de Solférino at 6.30am, the tobacconists marched to the health ministry en route to the Sénat to demand that senators throw out the law, which the government intends to introduce next year.. On Wednesday afternoon, French senators took out the clause requiring plain cigarette and tobacco packets.Instead, passed an amendment requiring health warnings to be made larger, in keeping with a European Union directive.
(16) Angry French tobacconists have dumped four tonnes of carrots outside the ruling Socialist party’s headquarters in Paris in protest at plans to force the introduction of plain cigarette packets.
(17) The Confédération des Buralistes – the tobacconists’ union – chose the carrot because it resembles the sign outside French shops selling cigarettes.