I apologize if this is a sensationalist question.

Lately I've been on a YouTube documentary kick, and just watched a mid-1990s series of three episodes of BBC's "Equinox" in which they discussed evidence of nicotine and cocaine in ancient mummies (Egyptian and otherwise) discovered through the application of modern forensics techniques.

Just about every Egyptologist or archeologist interviewed basically said that it was a load of crap, and I was curious if the whole thing was sensationalism, or if there was any new data and/or consensus on the findings.