[16] Tobacco was launched close to 1600 by French retailers in what currently is present day-day The Gambia and Senegal. Concurrently caravans from Morocco brought tobacco into the parts close to Timbuktu and the Portuguese brought the commodity (and the plant) to southern Africa, developing the popularity of tobacco https://nmate68023.wikijm.com/1355160/rumored_buzz_on_tabacco