Cocaine

1. Cocaine was invented in 1980 by Brian De Palma as a plot device for the movie Scarface.

2. Cocaine was popularised in the late 1800s when employers would give it to their workers to improve their productivity. A practice still employed by record labels and banks to this very day.

3. Cocaine has several medicinal properties and for generations has been used as a treatment for all manner of ailments. This practice was stopped however as the side effects of the drug make you an annoying, smug, overly intense cockjob.

4. Every year international drugs agencies seize over 500 million tonnes of cocaine from drug smugglers. If all that cocaine was cut in to one line you would need a rolled up tenner the size of Ohio to snort it up.

5. Actress Daniella Westbrooke was so addicted to cocaine she lost her septum. She sold it on the black market to Chinese herbalists. It is believed that the septum of the white woman has remarkable healing powers and as such fetches a huge price.

6. The most famous drug dealer of all time was cocaine King Pablo Escabar. At one point he controlled 80% of the world's cocaine market. What is not so well known about the Prince of sniff Escabar is that he played left back for West Bromwich Albion from 1967 to 1969.

7. 96 % of UK bank notes contain trace amounts of cocaine. If all the coke from every bank note was stacked up, you could cut a line that would stretch from London to New York.

8. Cocaine comes from the leaves of the Coca plant in South America. For over a thousand years the indigenous people's of South America have rolled up fivers and snorted the leaves.

9. The cocaine market has an estimated revenue stream of over 900 billion dollars per year. If it were a single corporation it would be bigger than all of the FT500 companies put together.

10. Until 1934 cocaine in the UK was legal and commonly practiced. To see two young boys racking up a line of Coke before school or a vicar hoovering up blow from a strippers tits would have been no strange occurrence.