Tobacco was first used by the peoples of the pre-Columbian Americas. Native Americans cultivated the Plant and apparently smoked it in pipes for Medicinal and Ceremonial purposes. Christopher Columbus brought a few leaves and Tobacco Seeds with Him back to Europe, but Most Europeans did not Get their First Taste of the Mid-16th Century until Tobacco. , when adventurers and diplomats like France's Jean Nicot - for whom nicotine is named - began to popularize its use. Tobacco was introduced to France in the 1,556th, Portugal in 1558th, and 1 559 in Spain, and England in 1565. The successful First Commercial Crop was cultivated in Virginia by Englishman John Rolfe in the 1,612th. Within seven years, it was the colony's largest export. Over the next two centuries, the growth of tobacco as a cash crop fueled the demand in North America for slave labor.
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