Narcotic incense

Narcotic incense was a substance that when burned produced an aromatic smoke that was capable of stimulating or depressing the nervous systems of beings who inhaled it. The various states of euphoria that a user experienced during this process gave narcotic incense a highly addictive quality. However, one notable drawback of the use of narcotic incense was that death was a symptom of prolonged exposure to it.
==Behind the scenes==
Narcotic incense made its only appearance as one the various airborne substances that Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa inhale when they enter a tavern in the novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Though the novel did not expound upon just what it was, the entry for narcotic incense in the first edition of A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, which reached two sentences in length, considerably increased the depth of knowledge regarding the topic.
Narcotic incense was later given a profile in a sidebar regarding a number of illicit drugs in the article "Underworld: A Galaxy of Scum and Villainy." With the statement that "Prolonged exposure has absolutely lethal effects," "Underworld: A Galaxy of Scum and Villainy," Star Wars Insider 89, page 36 the article appears to contradict A Guide to the Star Wars Universe assertion that it "addicting to some life forms and quite lethal to others." "Narcotic incense," A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, page 128
==Appearances==
*Splinter of the Mind's Eye
==Sources==
*A Guide to the Star Wars Universe
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
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