[sixteen] Tobacco was introduced around 1600 by French merchants in what today is modern-working day The Gambia and Senegal. Simultaneously caravans from Morocco brought tobacco into the parts around Timbuktu and the Portuguese brought the commodity (as well as the plant) to southern Africa, creating the popularity of tobacco https://nmate79125.westexwiki.com/1318118/smoking_no_further_a_mystery