It is also during this stage that the leaves acquire a more supple texture and develop a uniform color
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The inner bark of the root was used to make a laxative that proved effective as far back as General Francis Marion's camp during the Revolutionary War
Children were exposed to 50-cigarettes worth of nicotine through direct contact with tobacco leaves
Tobacco is a labor-intensive crop, and the children interviewed described participating in a range of tasks, including: planting seedlings, weeding, topping tobacco to remove flowers, removing nuisance leaves (called suckers), applying pesticides, harvesting tobacco leaves by hand or with machines, cutting tobacco plants with tobacco knives and loading them onto wooden sticks with sharp metal points, lifting sticks with several tobacco plants, hanging up and taking down sticks with tobacco plants in curing barns, and stripping and sorting dried tobacco leaves