"Over a five-year period, if you had the capability to check on the tobacco, to try the tobacco through the course of that five years well, you wouldn't actually want to do that, because it would interrupt what is really happening over the course of storing tobacco for five years
tabacum plants (photos every 5 min)
1828: Nicotine = poison Nicotine was first isolated from tobacco and identified as a poison by two German scientists Wilhelm Heinrich Posselt, a doctor, and Karl Ludwig Reinmann, a chemist
These plants will be tested for luminosity and marker presence next week
Christopher Wanjek is the author of the books "Bad Medicine" and "Food At Work." His column, Bad Medicine, appears regularly on Live Science
Each leaf is approximately 12-16 inches long, perfect for custom rolls