Nicotiana Tabacum "Petit Canadien" Solanaceae
Tobacco is a member of the Solanaceae family, along with tomatoes and potatoes. Its aromatic leaves are used in making cigarettes, cigars and pipe and chewing tobacco. A number of cultivars are grown as ornamentals.
Tobacco was domesticated some 8,000 years ago. Natives were growing it in the Americas long before Europeans arrived. It was part of many ceremonies, where it was smoked, inhaled, chewed, steeped, taken as snuff or offered to the Great Spirits to invoke their blessings.
Some of the earliest settlers in Quebec grew tobacco as a cash crop. Today, as a result of anti-smoking campaigns and freer international trade, very little tobacco is grown here commercially.
Nicotiana Tabacum "Petit Canadien" Solanaceae
Tobacco is a member of the Solanaceae family, along with tomatoes and potatoes. Its aromatic leaves are used in making cigarettes, cigars and pipe and chewing tobacco. A number of cultivars are grown as ornamentals.
Tobacco was domesticated some 8,000 years ago. Natives were growing it in the Americas long before Europeans arrived. It was part of many ceremonies, where it was smoked, inhaled, chewed, steeped, taken as snuff or offered to the Great Spirits to invoke their blessings.
Some of the earliest settlers in Quebec grew tobacco as a cash crop. Today, as a result of anti-smoking campaigns and freer international trade, very little tobacco is grown here commercially.