Tobacco smoking was once punishable by death under Islamic law

Evidence

For a while smoking was not only forbidden, but was treated as a capital offense. It is still forbidden by the Wahhabis and their disciples. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 261

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to moral-regulation debates (hashish/tobacco/coffee legality per Shari’a) — parallels the sumptuary-moral-panic cluster in the reader’s clothing/dress article about prohibitions as identity politics.
• QUESTION: Which ruler/period actually enforced tobacco as capital offense, and was anyone executed? Worth pinning down for corroboration.