The cigarrete

Tobacco, name common of two plants of the family of the Solanacea cultivated by their leaves that, once cured, they are smoked, they are chewed or they are aspired in snuff form. The cultivated species reaches between 1 and 3 m of height and it takes place from 10 to 20 alternating wide leaves that spring from a central shaft. It contains an alkaloid, the nicotine. It is toxic and it can produce alterations in the circulatory apparatus and the human being lungs. In occasions, it has been used as insecticide.

plants of the tobacco 
The tobacco is not one of the main agricultural products nutritious of the world. The mature plant measures from 1 to 3 m of height and it takes place between 10 and 20 big leaves. These they dry off, they cure and they use to manufacture cigarettes, pure and pipe tobacco and of chewing. 

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