A mild chemical stimulant naturally found in some plants

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Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.

An occasional paper of the British Anti-Tobacco Society / by Wm. Hardwicke ... embracing the recent researches of M. Jolly on tobacco smoking in France.

A voice from Hawaii / by T.S. Southwick.

Effect of tobacco smoking on the nervous system / by Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bart., K.C.B., Physician in ordinary to His majesty the King ; Regius Professor of physic in the University of Cambridge.

The tobacco question : physiologically, chemically, botanically, and statistically considered / [William E.A. Axon].

The cigarette papers / Stanton A. Glantz [and others] ; foreword by C. Everett Koop.

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Nicotine

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An occasional paper of the British Anti-Tobacco Society / by Wm. Hardwicke ... embracing the recent researches of M. Jolly on tobacco smoking in France.

A voice from Hawaii / by T.S. Southwick.

Effect of tobacco smoking on the nervous system / by Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bart., K.C.B., Physician in ordinary to His majesty the King ; Regius Professor of physic in the University of Cambridge.

The tobacco question : physiologically, chemically, botanically, and statistically considered / [William E.A. Axon].

The cigarette papers / Stanton A. Glantz [and others] ; foreword by C. Everett Koop.

Nicotine

Images from the collections

Images referencing Nicotine

Works from the collections

An occasional paper of the British Anti-Tobacco Society / by Wm. Hardwicke ... embracing the recent researches of M. Jolly on tobacco smoking in France.

A voice from Hawaii / by T.S. Southwick.

Effect of tobacco smoking on the nervous system / by Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bart., K.C.B., Physician in ordinary to His majesty the King ; Regius Professor of physic in the University of Cambridge.

The tobacco question : physiologically, chemically, botanically, and statistically considered / [William E.A. Axon].

The cigarette papers / Stanton A. Glantz [and others] ; foreword by C. Everett Koop.

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