tobacco

2 definitions • 2 examples

a substance smoked in cigarettes, pipes, etc. that is prepared from the dried leaves of a particular plant:

28 percent of people thought that the advertising of tobacco (= tobacco and products made from it, such as cigarettes) and alcohol should be banned.

a type of plant, or the dried leaves of this plant which are prepared and smoked in cigarettes, pipes, or cigars, or sometimes chewed:

the smell of tobacco