Nicotine

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Origin of Phrases - N

Nicotine

Jean Nicot was a French ambassador to Portugal. Around 1560, while serving in Lisbon, he obtained tobacco seeds from sailors who had traveled to the New World. When scientists began to realize that tobacco included a potent substance, they called it nicotine in honor of Jean Nicot, the man who first brought it to France.