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Cocaine vs Tobacco - What's the difference?

cocaine | tobacco |

In uncountable terms the difference between cocaine and tobacco

is that cocaine is a stimulant narcotic, derived from cultivated plants of the genus genus: Erythroxylum, in the form of a white powder that users generally self-administer by insufflation through the nose while tobacco is leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.

In countable terms the difference between cocaine and tobacco

is that cocaine is any derivative of cocaine while tobacco is a variety of tobacco.

cocaine

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A stimulant narcotic, derived from cultivated plants of the genus , in the form of a white powder that users generally self-administer by insufflation through the nose.
  • (countable) Any derivative of cocaine.
  • Synonyms

    * (slang) blow, Bolivian marching powder, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, coke, girl, nose candy, powder, rock, slim, snow, snuff, white lady, yayo or yeyo, yola * See also

    See also

    * crack * snort

    Anagrams

    * ----

    tobacco

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana .
  • (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
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  • (countable) A variety of tobacco.
  • See also

    * baccy, backy * *

    References