[16] Tobacco was introduced all around 1600 by French merchants in what now is fashionable-working day The Gambia and Senegal. At the same time caravans from Morocco brought tobacco for the places all around Timbuktu along with the Portuguese introduced the commodity (along with the plant) to southern Africa, https://nmate33209.bloguetechno.com/helping-the-others-realize-the-advantages-of-smoke-69169539