1492 - Tobacco
Tobacco
Luis de Torres and Rodrigo de Jerez make the first known reference to smoking tobacco. Sent ashore by Columbus in Cuba, they report seeing natives who "drank smoke," and Rodrigo will later be imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition for his "devilish habit" of smoking (see 1518).
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