For eons tobacco plant (Nicotiana) has been used as remedy for several maladies, and as a sociocultural relic because of its pleasurable effects. There are over 60 species of tobacco plant. For decades, Nicotiana tobacum has been the most commercially cultivated of the tobacco plant species.
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