1.   As he moved up the national leadership ladder, Ashcroft became more reluctant to bite the tobacco leaf that fed his party.

2.   At Ybor Square, The Jazz Cellar is located in the cool, dry rooms where Vincente Ybor stored his tobacco leaves.

3.   Blended leaf, reconstituted tobacco and regular chopped tobacco leaves are all blended to make the finished product, the company said.

4.   Cigar smokers beware, but this time not of the health concerns often associated with the recreational puffing of smoldering tobacco leaves.

5.   Deep richly structured wine with ripe blackberry, smoked bacon and tobacco leaf notes.

6.   During the half year, the company imported just more than half its tobacco leaves, and Tomizawa said domestic supplies are slowly declining.

7.   Farther south, near Mount Olive, a handful of men cut bundles of tobacco leaf and throw them onto a truck.

8.   For a cigar dinner at the Hudson River Club a few years ago, Waldy Malouf wrapped thin strips of fresh Connecticut tobacco leaves around striped bass.

9.   Fresh tobacco leaves can also lend a characteristic pungency, though these are available only in spring and summer.

10.   He has also infused tobacco leaves in creme anglaise for ice cream.