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Various plants are used around the world for smoking due to various chemical compounds they contain and the effects of these chemicals on the human body.
Lobelia inflata.Flower. Lobelia inflata is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant growing to 15–100 cm (5.9–39.4 in) tall, with stems covered in tiny hairs. Its leaves are usually about 8 cm (3.1 in) long, and are ovate and toothed.
An informant removed the outside bark of a twig with her thumbnail and noted that the remaining layer of bark when carefully shaven off served as tobacco, so-called kinnikinnick. Today kinnikinnick is a mixture of finely crushed inner bark of the red dogwood and shavings of plug tobacco.
A traditional form of tobacco smoking in Vietnam is called thuốc lào, where the highly potent leaves of the Nicotiana rustica plant are smoked through a water pipe, which is called điếu cày. Smoking thuốc lào is considered far more dangerous than cigarette smoking. Apart from the regular harms caused by smoke inhalation, there have ...
Various Nicotiana species, commonly referred to as tobacco plants, are cultivated as ornamental garden plants. N. tabacum is grown worldwide for the cultivation of tobacco leaves used for manufacturing and producing tobacco products, including cigars, cigarillos, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, snuff, and snus.
These terms are used by Aboriginal Australians to refer not only to the leaf or the mixture of ash and leaf that is chewed but also to the shrubs and trees that are the sources of the ash and leaf. [2] Some authors use the term, "pituri", to refer only to the plant Duboisia hopwoodii and its leaves and any chewing mixture containing its leaves. [3]
During his interview with Jennifer Aniston, Stern called over one of his producers, 39-year-old J.D. Harmeyer, who'd agreed to try marijuana for the very first time in his life. Aniston, a Los ...
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Gnaphalium obtusifolium.It was transferred to Pseudognaphalium in 1981. [1]Populations found in the state of Wisconsin growing on ledges and in cracks in shaded limestone cliff-faces, usually those facing south or east, have been described as Pseudognaphalium saxicola, common name cliff cudweed or rabbit-tobacco.