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For a time tobacco was known as "Nicotina" in honor of Nicot who introduced it to France, but the name "tobacco" eventually prevailed as the world¹s largest producer became the island of Tobago, the Caribbean's southernmost island above the Port of Spain off Venezuela.
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By 1560, tobacco was known throughout Europe as a medicinal plant thanks to Jean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal.
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For a time tobacco was known as "Nicotina" in honor of Nicot who introduced it to France, but the name "tobacco" eventually prevailed as the world¹s largest producer became the island of Tobago, the Caribbean's southernmost island above the Port of Spain off Venezuela.
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Nicot was enamored both with the plant¹s flower, which he wore as a boutonniere, and its medicinal properties.
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Nicot was enamored both with the plant¹s flower, which he wore as a boutonniere, and its medicinal properties.
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By 1560, tobacco was known throughout Europe as a medicinal plant thanks to Jean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal.
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Then taking out a short wooden pipe, he filled it with the coarse and bitter tobacco of Brazil, of which the leaves belong to that old “petun” introduced into France by Nicot, to whom we owe the popularization of the most productive and widespread of the solanaceae.
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It is in every way exceedingly valuable, and superior to that of Nicot, because instead of keeping to the plane of classic and Latin French, it showed an acquaintance with and mastery of the popular tongue as well as of the written and learned language.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is in every way exceedingly valuable, and superior to that of Nicot, because instead of keeping to the plane of classic and Latin French, it showed an acquaintance with and mastery of the popular tongue as well as of the written and learned language.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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