Not exactly the same, though I get where you were going with the example. history/ “Pemberton’s French Wine Coca Nerve Tonic,” the precursor to Coca-Cola was

Not exactly the same, though I get where you were going with the example. history/ “Pemberton’s French Wine Coca Nerve Tonic,” the precursor to Coca-Cola was a patent medicine and was proported to cure morphine addiction (of which Pemberton suffered from after the U.S. Civil War). The addictive affects of the coca leaf weren’t widely accepted at the time due to the limited concentration of active cocaine in the “wines” it was typically included with. That it had addictive qualities was a side-effect, not a conscious decision to aid with repeat business. /history