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Jean Nicot, the French ambassador in Lisbon, sent tobacco seed and snuff to the French court around 1560. Botanists named the plant Nicotiana after him, and in the early 1800s chemists named its poison nicotine — a word that then spread with the cigarette into almost every language.

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