Product Name;Tobacco,Source Plant;Nicotiana Stock Photo

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them. The plant is part of the genus Nicotiana and of the Solanaceae & x28;nightshade& x29; family. While more than 70 species of tobacco are known, the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent variant N. rustica is also used around the world.The English word & x22;tobacco& x22; originates from the Spanish and Portuguese word & x22;tabaco& x22;. The precise origin of this word is disputed, but it is generally thought to have derived at least in part, from Taino, the Arawakan language of the Caribbean. In Taino, it was said to mean either a roll of tobacco leaves & x28;according to Bartolomé de las Casas, 1552& x29; or to tabago, a kind of Y-shaped pipe used for sniffing tobacco smoke & x28;according to Oviedo; with the leaves themselves being referred to as cohib[4][5] However, perhaps coincidentally, similar words in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian were used from 1410 to define medicinal herbsbelieved to have originated from the Arabic طُبّاق ṭubbāq;also طُباق ṭubāq;, a word reportedly dating to the 9th century