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Tobacco

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"'Tis good to be back on solid ground, if only for the pleasures of fresh food, good port, and good tobacco."
―Reginald Marmaduke Bracegirdle-Penwallow to Cutler Beckett[src]

Tobacco was an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines.

History

"Tobacco plantation on fire. Pity. Waste of good tobacco."
―Jack Sparrow to Hector Barbossa[src]

Before Billy Turner left the Isle of Man in search of a better life in North Carolina, the local priest, Reverend Chambers, asked him to send him some tobaccey.[1] Jonathan Beckett Sr.'s office was a big room, smelling of pipe tobacco and whiskey.[2] The Code of the Brethren forbade pirates from smoking tobacco in the hold without a cap to their pipe. If one was discovered doing so, he was to receive whatever punishment the captain and ship's company saw fit.[3] On one occasion the French pirate Christophe-Julien de Rapièr and his crew captured a Spanish ship that was carrying a small chest of gold coins, silver ingots, and some very fine tobacco.[4] Later, following their escape from Shipwreck Island, they captured a Dutch flute which carried a load of tobacco.[5] The EITC Director Lord Reginald Marmaduke Bracegirdle-Penwallow never smoked on board a ship, but when he was on solid ground he enjoyed the pleasures of fresh food, good port, and good tobacco. His colleague, Cutler Beckett, did not smoke, and regarded the custom as nasty vice.[6] While notorious pirate Captain Jack Sparrow was traveling on the Mississippi River during his quest for the Shadow Gold, he encountered a slave revolt and realized they were burning a tobacco plantation. Sparrow considered that a waste of good tobacco.[7]

Behind the scenes

Tobacco first appeared in the 2003 video game Pirates of the Caribbean.[citation needed]

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay draft for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, after Elizabeth Swann leaves Lord Cutler Beckett's office with the Letters of Marque, past a sleeping Guard, Beckett emerges, lights a cigarette. Looks out at the Caribbean night, thoughtful, Beckett regards the cigarette, smiles, then kicks the Guard, who falls off his stool.[8] The scene never made it to the final cut of the film but was retained, albeit without a cigarette, in the deleted scene "What Of You And Jack?" featured in Blu-ray releases beginning in 2011.[9]

Dead Man's Chest was noted as "containing tobacco depictions" on the film's MPAA rating, an additional notice later displayed on the Disney+ streaming service.[10] Tobacco was also mentioned as a content label in the 2011 mobile game Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas.[11]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ Jack Sparrow: The Tale of Billy Turner and Other Stories, p. 25
  2. ↑ The Price of Freedom, Chapter Seven: Lost and Found
  3. ↑ The Pirates' Code Guidelines, p. 26
  4. ↑ The Price of Freedom, Chapter One: Fair Winds and Black Ships
  5. ↑ The Price of Freedom, Chapter Eleven: Pirates and Rogues
  6. ↑ The Price of Freedom, Chapter Four: Cutler Beckett
  7. ↑ Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean, p. 121
  8. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  9. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Deleted Scene: "What Of You And Jack?"
  10. ↑ Watch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest on Disney+
  11. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas