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The shift from traditional smoking of indigenous tobaccos and other plants to commercial tobaccos has had “significant deleterious effects on tribal culture and health,” the study said.

From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2018

“It’s something we’ve been planning for,” said David Sylvia, a spokesman for Altria Group, the parent company of John Middleton, which manufactures the popular Black & Mild cigar brand and a variety of pipe tobaccos.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2013

The few groups that did not benefit from Wall Street's afterthoughts on Lebanon and Iraq were defensive issues such as tobaccos and foods, which have been recession favorites.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the conspicuous exception of oils, shoes, drugs, foods, chain stores and tobaccos, industrial earnings practically disappeared, amounted to less than one-thirtieth of 1931 earnings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Closely related species replace each other geographically among the amaranths, beans, chenopods, chili peppers, cottons, squashes, and tobaccos.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond