Ramon Allones

Until late in the fifteenth century, no one had any idea concerning tobacco smoking although there were reports dating back to pre-voyage era. The very first reports were filed by the renowned sailor and voyager Christopher Columbus who in the year 1492. intimated that Cuban Indians smoked a certain primitive kind of tobacco made of dried tobacco leaves wrapped in plantain or palm leaves. Soon residents of Spain and its environs caught the habit and started smoking similar tobacco although not from Cuba. The habit spread so fast in Spain and to the rest of European countries including France, Britain, Germany and Swiss among other countries.