Tobacco was an agricultural product on the planet Earth. To extract nicotine, a highly addictive and poisonous substance, Humans smoked and chewed tobacco on Earth until at least the 21st century.
During the 19th century tobacco was on sale in a shop in the Irish village of Fair Haven, if the holoprogram Paris 042 is to be believed. (VOY: "Fair Haven")
A spittoon was a container associated with the Ancient West and chewing tobacco. While on a failed Skagaran colony, Commander Charles Tucker noted that a Human settlement there was an authentic recreation of a settlement from that period of time, down to the spittoons. (ENT: "North Star")
Data would smoke a pipe when portraying Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck, as it was part of the role. (TNG: "Elementary, Dear Data", "Ship In A Bottle")
In 1930 New York City, a retail store sold tobacco and pipes. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
Captain Jean-Luc Picard lit a tobacco cigarette while portraying Dixon Hill on the holodeck. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
When Quark, Rom and Nog found themselves in 1940s Earth, virtually all of the Humans they encountered were smokers. Quark had a particularly negative reaction to the tobacco smoke. (DS9: "Little Green Men")
A shop advertising "tabac" (french for tobacco) was part of the Sainte Claire Holoprogram. (VOY: "The Killing Game")
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External links[]
- Tobacco at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Tobacco at Wikipedia