Has anyone read these?
Balabanova S, Rosing FW, Buhler G, et al.
Nicotine use in early Mediaeval Kirchheim / Teck, Germany
HOMO 52 (1): 72-76 2001
[www.sciencedirect.com]

BALABANOVA S, PARSCHE F, BUHLER G, et al.
WAS NICOTINE KNOWN IN ANCIENT-EGYPT
HOMO 44 (1): 92-94 JUN 1993 #

BALABANOVA S, PARSCHE F, PIRSIG W
1ST IDENTIFICATION OF DRUGS IN EGYPTIAN MUMMIES
NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN 79 (8): 358-358 AUG 1992

Balabanova S, Rosing FW, Buhler G, et al.
Nicotine and cotinine in prehistoric and recent bones from Africa and Europe and the origin of these alkaloids
HOMO 48 (1): 72-77 FEB 1997

and
[www.fsijournal.org]
Determination of nicotine in hair samples of pre-Columbian mummies
F. Musshoff, W. Rosendahl, B. Madea
Forensic Science International - 10 March 2009 (Vol. 185, Issue 1, Pages 84-88, DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2008.12.016)

There's also this, Detection Of Nicotine And Cocaine In Ancient Human Remalns From Different Locations Out Of America And An Archaeologlcal Perlon Spans A Range From 9.000 Bc To 700 Ad.
ByDoz. Dr. Svedana Balabanova
which looks as though it may be from a book:
[www.google.co.uk] in which she says "If the tobacco plant was imported to Egypt in the sixteenth century, the question remains of whether it is possible that a plant in approximately 200 years rapidly developed new wild forms or whether the nicotiana plant, at least in wild forms, was already present in ancient Egypt. The evidence of coleoptera in the tomb of Tutankhamon and the mummy of Ramses rr and the remains of nicotiana plants and nicotine present in the mummy, speaks for this assumption."

Doug Weller

Director The Hall of Ma'at
Doug's Skeptical Archaeology site::
[www.ramtops.co.uk]