Pharmaceutica Analytica Acta

Overview of Tobacco and its Various Forms

Dai Ron^* Department of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
^*Correspondence: Dai Ron, Department of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China, Email:

Received: 04-Aug-2021 Published: 27-Aug-2021, DOI: 10.35248/2153-2435.21.12.e644

Editorial Note

Tobacco refers to a variety of plants in the Nicotiana genus of the Solanaceae family, as well as any product made from the cured leaves of these plants. Tobacco comes in over 70 different species, although N. tabacum is the most prevalent commercial crop. The more potent variation N. rustica is also utilised in some locations. Dried tobacco leaves are mostly utilised in cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and shishas for smoking. Tobacco contains nicotine as well as harmala alkaloids, which are highly addictive stimulants. Tobacco smoking is linked to a number of fatal diseases, including those affecting the heart, liver, and lungs, as well as a variety of malignancies. Tobacco use was rated the world's single largest avoidable cause of death by the World Health Organization in 2008.

Tobacco comes in various forms.

Aromatic fire-cured is a type of form which can be cured by smoke from open fires. In the United States, It is grown in northern middle Tennessee, central Kentucky, and Virginia in the United States. Some chewing tobaccos, moist snuff, some cigarettes, and pipe tobacco mixes contain fire-cured tobacco cultivated in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Burley tobacco: Burley tobacco is an air-cured tobacco that is predominantly utilised in the creation of cigarettes.

Cavendish: Cavendish is more of a curing and cutting method for tobacco than a kind. The processing and cut are utilised to bring out the tobacco's natural sweetness. Cavendish tobacco can be made from any type of tobacco, but it's most typically made from Kentucky, Virginia, and burley, and it's used for pipe tobacco and cigars.

Criollo tobacco: Tobacco from the Criollo region is largely used to make cigars. According to most sources, it was one of the first Cuban tobaccos to appear around the time of Columbus.

Dokha: Dokha is an Iranian tobacco that is blended with leaves, bark, and herbs and smoked in a midwakh.

Turkish tobacco: Turkish tobacco is a small-leafed, sun-cured, extremely aromatic tobacco grown in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia. It is also known as "oriental" since it was originally grown in areas that were once part of the Ottoman Empire. Many of the first cigarette brands were manufactured totally or primarily of Turkish tobacco; today, it's mostly used in pipe and cigarette tobacco blends.

Perique: Perique was created in 1824 by a farmer named Pierre Chenet using a pressure-fermentation procedure on local tobacco. It's known as the truffle of pipe tobaccos, and it's used in a lot of mixed pipe tobaccos, but it's too strong to smoke on its own. Freshly moist Perique was once chewed as well, although none is presently sold for this purpose. To provide spice, power, and coolness to the blend, it is usually combined with pure Virginia.

Shade tobacco: In Connecticut and Massachusetts, shade tobacco is grown. Early Connecticut colonists picked up the habit of smoking tobacco in pipes from Native Americans, and began economically producing the plant, but the Puritans referred to it as "evil weed."

Wild tobacco: Wild tobacco with botanical name Nicotiana rustica whch is native to southwestern United States, Mexico and other parts of South America.