Also, in Concering Pipeweed, part of the prologue to the Lord of the Rings, it is mentioned that the pipe weed that hobbits smoke is "a variety probably of Nicotania," (pg. 9, Houghton Mifflin), meaning that it is probably a strain of or similar to modern-day tobacco. Indeed, Middle Earth's botany seems to resemble our own earth's quite closely.
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