From Nicot To Nicotine
Linnaeus reputedly named the genus Nicotonia, consisting of two species of tobacco, after Jean Nicot. When organic chemists isolate the active ingredients from mind-altering herbs, they tend to use the suffix -ine to indicate their organic nature. The chemist who isolated nicotine from tobacco appears to have named it after Jean Nicot.
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“Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.”
—Martyn Harris (b. 1952)