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Nobody knows when began history of smoking. But some researchers assert that first smokers were Egyptian pharaohs. Hookah and other smoking accessories were found in one of tombs and dated the II B.C.
History of tobacco in America
But historical evidence of consumption wild tobacco species by Native Americans related far before B.C.E. Tobacco used in small dozes as stimulating remedy for suppression of starvation and thirst, and also as analgesic. Smoking of a small amount of tobacco was ritual during military negotiations, and strengthening of soldiers fighting. Indians knew that large dozes of tobacco influence consciousness. This property of tobacco smoking was used for religious purposes – to achieve trances and dialogue with spirits. Smoking wasn’t only way of tobacco using. More often Indians added tobacco in food, chewed leaves, drank juice of tobacco or syrup.
History of tobacco and nicotine in Europe
Tobacco had already long been used in the Americas when European settlers arrived and introduced the practice to Europe, where it became popular at the end of the fifteenth century. In long history of tobacco remarkable fact is that nicotine was first isolated from the tobacco plant in 1828 by German chemists Posselt & Reimann.
Its chemical empirical formula was described by Melsens in 1843, its structure was discovered by Adolf Pinner in 1893, and it was first synthesized by A. Pictet and Crepieux in 1904.
History of tobacco smoking in Africa
It is not known exactly when tobacco was introduced to Africa. However, it is generally accepted that the Portuguese were the first to take tobacco to Africa, probably sometime in the early-to-mid-sixteenth century. Until the 1700's, pipe smoking was the preferred method of tobacco use. Later people began using dry snuff or chewing tobacco instead. By the 1800's, cigarettes became more fashionable but had to be rolled by hand and were extremely expensive. The first report to link smoking to certain diseases was published in 1859. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford both declared tobacco use should be banned. From then on people began realized dangerous effects of smoking. German scientists formally identified the link between smoking and lung cancer in the late 1920s leading the first anti-smoking campaign in modern history
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History of smoking 
