Elyse M Grasso on Nostr: Tobacco was was introduced to Europe by the Spanish in the early 16th century in our ...

Tobacco was was introduced to Europe by the Spanish in the early 16th century in our world, and was an early driver of the introduction of African enslavement in North America.

In Franz-Karl's world both colonization and the African slave trade were muted compared to ours: his father was an envoy to a native polity in West-Over-Sea in the late 1680s(ish). So I assume the tobacco trade was also muted, or possibly smoking was very expensive and upper class in some parts of not-Europe.