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to·bac·co  (t-bk)
n. pl. to·bac·cos or to·bac·coes
1. Any of various plants of the genus Nicotiana, especially N. tabacum, native to tropical America and widely cultivated for their leaves, which are used primarily for smoking.
2. The leaves of these plants, dried and processed chiefly for use in cigarettes, cigars, or snuff or for smoking in pipes.
3. Products made from these plants.
4. The habit of smoking tobacco: I gave up tobacco.
5. A crop of tobacco.

[Spanish tabaco, possibly of Caribbean origin.]

tobacco [təˈbækəʊ]
n pl -cos, -coes
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of numerous solanaceous plants of the genus Nicotiana, having mildly narcotic properties, tapering hairy leaves, and tubular or funnel-shaped fragrant flowers. The species N. tabacum is cultivated as the chief source of commercial tobacco
2. (Law / Recreational Drugs) the leaves of certain of these plants dried and prepared for snuff, chewing, or smoking
[from Spanish tabaco, perhaps from Taino: leaves rolled for smoking, assumed by the Spaniards to be the name of the plant]
tobaccoless  adj

Tobacco 

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  1. An acrid cigar held tightly in your teeth, you look like a banker or a psychiatrist or both —Daniela Gioseffi
  2. Ash flows like a breaking thundercloud from his clenched cigar —Harvey Swados
  3. Ashtray … crammed with smoked cigarettes like dead bugs —John Rechy
  4. Blowing a cloud of coarse smoke [from pipe], like a steam roller —Frank Swinnerton
  5. (I lit) a cigar, a cheap twisted black thing like half a pepperoni —T. Coraghessan Boyle
  6. Cigarette coals dotted the room like watchfires —Thomas Pynchon
  7. Cigarettes … dangle from his lips like a second tongue —Jonathan Valin
  8. Cigarettes tasted like hot ashes —Anthony E. Stockanes
  9. Cigars … when lit, they exuded an overwhelming odor, like burning manure from constipated giraffes —Richard S. Prather
  10. A dead cigar which was always in his hand, seemed to belong there, like a thumb or finger —Willa Cather
  11. The glow in the bowl of his pipe went on and off like a firefly —Jean Stafford
  12. A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  13. His cheeks puffed [from smoking a cigar] like a bellows —Jay Parini
  14. His cigar … had become a natural appendage … like a pipe stuck in the face of a snowman —Robert Traver
  15. It [tobacco] smells like Saturday, and consequently puts me in a chronic holiday mood —Robert Benchley
  16. It [cigarette] tasted like burning rope —F. Van Wyck Mason
  17. Lit his stogy, which flared up like a burning bush —Arthur Train
  18. My psyche felt as different without cigarettes as my body felt in moving from air to water —Norman Mailer
  19. Removed his water-logged cigar, like a man calmly unscrewing his nose —Robert Traver
  20. The smell of good tobacco … heavy as incense in a church —Howard Spring
  21. Smoked like a chimney —Richard Harris Barham
  22. The smoke of cigars and cigarettes like curtains before the lights —R. Wright Campbell
  23. Smoking his clay pipe with the elegance of an Indian chief —Andre Malraux
  24. Stubbed out the cigarette as if he were squashing a cockroach —Derek Lambert
  25. The tip of his narrow cigarette danced like a tiny ballerina in the dark —Nelson Algren
  26. Took another deep drag of his cigarette, letting the smoke curl up out of his mouth and around his head like ectoplasm —Margaret Millar
  27. To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is the equivalent of kissing a lady through a respirator —Anon

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