(Pipes Magazine) ... Tobacco as we smoke it in modern times is not really the “original.” Like everything grown and consumed by humans over the years, tobacco has been selectively-bred, cross-pollinated, manipulated and adapted for our needs, tastes and trade, as well as for necessary growing qualities. Tobacco, more specifically nicotiana tobacum, is what we usually smoke. There are other varieties that helped us get this cultivated joy (or reviled scourge to an uncultured swine) to what we know today. N. rustica is one of the tobacco varietals that was discovered along with its cousins in the Americas during European exploration some centuries back.
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