Tobacco has claimed the lives of millions however, is it possible that tobacco could potentially become a life saving medicine. On Friday October 3, 2014 CNN published an article called Tobacco Plant May Be The Key to Ebola Drugs . The Article states that through the tobacco plant they are able to make a large quantity of medicine for a much lower cost. A federally funded organization name Blue Angel, produced 10 million flu vaccines in 30 days. This rapid process of creating medicine could become very helpful because Ebola has recently become in epidemic in the United States. Thomas Duncan was the first person to contract Ebola in the US. Duncan left Liberia for the United States and lived in Dallas, Texas. Duncan on a questionnaire was asked if he had come in contact with a person who had Ebola, Duncan answered no but in fact he lived with a women in Liberia that died from the disease. So now pharmaceutical companies are now looking for ways to cure Ebola before it is too late. Madeleine Stix (author of the article) writes about what the tobacco related medicine is like “The drug is a “biosimilar” form of a current drug on the market called Herceptin, usually produced by creating antibodies in mammalian cells from hamsters’ovaries”. There are many difficulties to producing plant- based pharmaceuticals, like getting the FDA to approve. The FDA has only approved one prior plant- based pharmaceutical with was Elelyso. Ebola is a quickly rising epidemic in America. It has killed at least 3000 people in West Africa and will do the same in the United States if vaccines are not produced. Can tobacco fix is tarnished reputation trough advancements in medical science?