Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

In a somewhat more benign development, researchers in Germany have developed tobacco plants that also can't stop growing. Under normal conditions, the tobacco plant has a rather uninspiring lifespan.

Genetic engineers in Illinois have designed tobacco plants that grow as much as 40% larger than usual. If similar changes can be made to soybeans or potatoes, it could increase food supplies ...

Tobacco plants foil very hungry caterpillars by switching pollinators to hummingbirds The 13,000-year old tree that survives by cloning itself Review: Royal Institution Christmas Lecture – the ...