Native Americans initially planted tobacco and sucked the leaves in the pipeline for medical and ritual purposes.
After the tobacco leaf Christopher Columbus were brought to Europe from the Americas, around mid-16th century, an explorer and French diplomat Jean Nicot (here-from the name of nicotine taken), popularizing the use of tobacco.
Tobacco leaves firstly used for smoking by a pipe, chewed and sucked. Cigar doesn't popular until the early 1800s.
How about Indonesia? There are no records to find out exactly when the population of Indonesia start to smoking. According Solichin Salam, 1624, the Javanese officials in the Palace Kartasura already fond of cigarette smoking of tobacco (Kompas 01.01.2000).
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