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# tobacco

«tobacco» in Mova's school dictionary: **a plant whose dried leaves are smoked in cigarettes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tobacco — uncountable; tobaccos for kinds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tobacco is a plant whose dried leaves are smoked in cigarettes, cigars and pipes, or chewed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#m1)

2) Tobacco is also the dried leaves themselves, prepared for smoking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons tobacco is harmful: it contains nicotine, which is addictive, and smoking causes lung disease and cancer. It is illegal to sell to children. In history, tobacco was grown on big farms and traded. Phrases: tobacco smoke, tobacco plant, chewing tobacco.

### examples

- Tobacco is very bad for your health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#x1)
- The shop is not allowed to sell tobacco to children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#x2)
- Grandad gave up tobacco and feels much better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#x3)
- The pipe smelled of tobacco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#x4)
- Tobacco plants have big green leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#x5)
- Tobacco smoke can harm people nearby too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Spelled with one «b» and double «c»: to-bac-co. Myth: «a few cigarettes don't hurt» — any smoking harms health. Second-hand smoke hurts others.

### In the corpora

- [In Europa Universalis 5 colonies send sugar and tobacco as trade goods and the game ends in 1836.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tobacco» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.