Nicotiana persica is a species of tobacco

Tobacco

Tobacco is 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...

 which is cultivated in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. It is the source of Persian Tobacco made in ITC monopoly

ITC monopoly

The Iranian Tobacco Company was established in 1928 to achieve improvement and progress in the global tobacco industry.ITC's brands include Bahman, Tir, Farvardin, 57, Homa, Zar, Kish, Caspian, Marlleak, Special Oshno, 98 and 68....

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"Persian tobacco" is for example mentioned in the Mark Twain's book Innocents Abroad

Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American...

, Chapter XXXIV.

Nicotiana alata is also sometimes called Persian Tobacco; this is mainly an ornamental plant

Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display...

 however, grown for its pretty flowers and rarely for narghila tobacco.