Tobacco Plant Used to Create First-Ever 'Cruise Ship' Virus Vaccine

(fox)  As one of the main ingredients in cigarettes, tobacco certainly gets a bad rap.  But the tobacco plant has been used to develop a new vaccine to thwart the dreaded norovirus – an illness that has been know to wreak havoc on cruise ships sickening passengers (sometimes hundreds of passengers) with diarrhea and vomiting.  READ MORE