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tobacco mosaic
tobacco mosaic A disease of tobacco, tomato, and related plants, in which the leaves become distorted and are marked with a characteristic mosaic of light and dark green. It is caused by an
RNA-containing virus, the tobacco mosaic virus.
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Tobacco Farmer Interest and Success in Income Diversification
Magazine article from: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years...identifying alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota program has accelerated the exit of...
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Tobacco: Global Industry Almanac Report - Global Tobacco Market Grew by 5.1% in 2008 to Reach a Value of $396.9 Billion.
M2 Presswire; 6/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...PRESSWIRE-8 June 2009-Research and Markets: Tobacco: Global Industry Almanac Report - Global Tobacco Market Grew by 5.1% in 2008 to Reach a...researchandmarkets.com/research/6cedbc/tobacco_global_in) has announced the addition...
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Tobacco control in India.(Review Article)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Dental Research; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Preetha. Chaly Portuguese introduced tobacco to India 400 years ago. Ever since, Indians have used tobacco in various forms. Sixty five per cent of all men and 33% of all women use tobacco in some form. Tobacco causes over 20 categories...
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Tobacco prevention in tobacco-raising areas: lessons from the lion's den.
Magazine article from: Journal of School Health; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...this commentary, issues of delivering messages about tobacco in a tobacco-producing area are discussed. While students who live in these areas most need effective tobacco prevention, they probably are least likely to receive...
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Tobacco. (Think Again).
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; For tobacco control advocates, the tobacco industry is public health enemy number one: It sells a commodity...million of the 6 billion people living today. For governments, tobacco is both a health threat and a powerful economic force that annually...
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 "Economic Times (New Delhi, India)")
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Tobacco growers want credit at home loan rate.
Newspaper article from: Economic Times (New Delhi, India); 4/25/2005; 700+ words
; ...farmers than other types of tobacco. Mr Lall also called for equitable...implementable regulation for tobacco consumption, as well as policies...both smuggled and imported tobaccos did not contain Indian FCV tobacco and their influx negatively...
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Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...western North American tobaccos and on the health implications of tobacco use. The book's 18...traditional uses of tobacco, description of the North American tobaccos, the archaeobotanical study of tobacco, the identification...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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TOBACCO 'A WAY OF LIFE'
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 6/28/1998; 700+ words
; ...He has also acquired vast holdings in tobacco. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO) THIS ELECTRONIC...he has also acquired vast holdings in tobacco - so large that few American physicians...wife have more than 932,000 pounds of tobacco allotment in South Carolina, according...
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Tobacco-Free Kids: Big Tobacco Wins, Kids and Taxpayers Lose as Gov. Ehrlich Proposes Slashing Tobacco Prevention Funding in Half
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 1/17/2003; 700+ words
; ...Executive Vice President Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: "Just days after Philip...Governor Bob Ehrlich today handed the tobacco industry a big victory by proposing to cut funding for Maryland's tobacco prevention program nearly in half...
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 "The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)")
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SMOKELESS TOBACCO: LESS RISK, BETTER FUTURE.(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 10/16/2003; 700+ words
; ...the first Colonial-era cash crops, tobacco and its growers have always faced a future...many regulatory forks in the road. But tobacco has never faced a crossroads like the...and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco products. This particular regulatory...
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Tobacco
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...produced, but most tobacco types require significant...plants of air-cured tobaccos are cut off just above...The major types of tobacco are bright (flue...Burley and flue-cured tobaccos are the primary tobacco types used in the manufacture...
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Tobacco: History of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
TOBACCO: HISTORY OF Tobacco generally refers to the leaves and other parts of certain South American...domesticated and used by Native Americans for the alkaloid Nicotine. Tobacco plants are a species of the genus Nicotiana, belonging to the Solanaceae...
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Tobacco Industry
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
TOBACCO INDUSTRY The first permanent English settlement...Virginia colony exported 40,000 pounds of tobacco to England and the farmers were getting rich. The first successful commercial crop of tobacco was cultivated in Virginia in 1611 by Englishman...
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Tobacco: Smokeless
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
TOBACCO: SMOKELESS Since tobacco is a plant native to the New World, Native Americans were the first...other plants for both ritual and medicinal purposes. The use of tobacco was brought to Europe by Columbus and other explorers, where it...
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Tobacco Control Advocacy and Policies—U.S.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
TOBACCO CONTROL ADVOCACY AND POLICIES—U.S. At...effort to convince others to take some type of action. Tobacco control advocacy is aimed at reducing the harm caused by tobacco use by changing the underlying political, economic...
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