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# tobacco

noun (tobacco — uncountable; tobaccos for kinds)

«tobacco» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Tobacco is a plant whose dried leaves are smoked in cigarettes, cigars and pipes, or chewed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#m1)
2. Tobacco is also the dried leaves themselves, prepared for smoking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tobacco» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobacco/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tobacco» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tobacco.html) on Mova free.