Historical accounts vary. Jean Nicot or Sir Walter Raleigh. Hopefully somebody will add to this with some historical facts.
Europeans brought smallpox with them when they travelled to the Americas and it killed many people there. They brought tobacco back to Europe and tobacco has resulted in many deaths too.
Maize (corn), tobacco, and indigo were three of the biggest American exports to Europe when America was first discovered.
Tobacco was the first cash crop in the English Colonies in America. The first to grow tobacco was John Rolfe of Jamestown. He brought tobacco seeds he had acquired in Trinidad . By 1612, he had harvested his initial crop to be exported to Europe.
Tobacco was found in the Americas more than a thousand years after the Bible was written, and only then brought back to Europe. The people of biblical times had no concept of smoking tobacco.
They brought tobacco to the new colony.
the African were brought to America to plant and harvest tobacco.
From Europe, they brought textiles, run and manufactured good to Africa. From Africa, they bought slaves or simply took people and made them slaves, and brought them to the Americas. From the Americas, the Europeans brought back the sugar, tobacco and cotton.
John Rolfe brought the tobacco seeds to Jamestown and also married Pocahontas.
Potatoes were introduced to Europe by the Spanish conquistadors who brought them back from South America in the late 16th century. Tobacco was introduced to Europe by the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus after he encountered it during his voyages to the Americas in the late 15th century.
The answer usually is thought to be 'tobacco' or 'smoking'. This is however incorrect, for tobacco had been brought to Europe and England long before him. He did however popularize smoking and because he smoked, it became fashionable in 'polite' company.
Slaves were brought to America to farm tobacco on plantations.
No. During the medieval period of time, tobacco did not exist in Europe and was smoked only in North America for ceremonial purposes. Tobacco was not imported to Europe until the Renaissance period.