“The use of tobacco for smoking and in the form of snuff is common among Jews, who in some countries control to a large extent the manufacture and sale of the product. It is asserted that a Jew named Luis de Terres, who accompanied Columbus on his expedition in 1492, settled in Cuba, learned the use of tobacco, and introduced it into Europe. From this time Jews have been connected with the trade in tobacco, one of the most important in early American history. [...] The Jews of Turkey at that time must have been very much addicted to the habit. . . [They were] inveterate smokers, impatient for the close of Sabbath, when they might resume smoking, and as watching for the appearance of the three stars which indicate the end of the day; some began smoking even before Habdalah.”
— The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1905: article on Tobacco. [pp.164-166]
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