of plants in the genus Nicotiana
. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines. It is most commonly used as a recreational drug, and is a valuable cash crop
for countries such as Cuba
, China
and the United States
.
In consumption it most commonly appears in the forms of smoking
, chewing
, snuff
ing, or dipping
tobacco.
When I heard smoking will kill you I bought shares in Marlboro and Dunhill. :Thomas Geraghty
Life is too short to not to blow; but you can always make the process a little slow! :Gurdeepak Ahuja
Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar. :Steve Allen
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the the pit that is bottomless. :James I of England
Gentlemen, you may smoke. :[ending the long ban on smoking held by Queen Victoria in the early 20th Century] :King Edward VII
I'll smoke anything anybody gives me, I'm not particular. :Peter Falk
If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go. :Mark Twain
If they made all cigars and cigarettes in the shape of a certain male body part, most men would stop smoking immediately. Maybe that wouldn't happen because cigars pretty much look like that anyway and you'll still see men licking and sucking on them as if they were hungrily welcoming a boyfriend who just came back from a long trip. :Duane Alan Hahn
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. :Mark Twain
It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times. :Mark Twain