How does tobacco link Britain’s empire and America’s development from 1600 onwards?

Tobacco is a readily used product in the modern day, mostly within cigarettes. Tobacco had been introduced to the British in the sixteenth century and it was commonly used for pipe smoking. Tobacco is a product that is processed from leaves of plants and it can be used in several ways. One being consumption, others being medicine and pesticides. The exportation and profit making from tobacco started at around the 17th Century. However, in the times that it became popular, the health hazards of smoking were not known by the users of tobacco, so they smokes pipes and cigars to their heart’s content!
The Virginia Company founded in May 1607, was what made the tobacco industry start up. The company had many different enterprises that they had ventured into, most of which failed except one: Tobacco. They tested silk making, glassmaking, lumber jacking, pitch and tar and more, and each yielded no success. John Rolfe had been experimenting with tobacco and developed his first profitable export. During this, Spaniards had found that the native West Indians were using tobacco. In seeing this, the Spaniards had decided to take some home with them and then a chain reaction was sparked in which the tobacco plant was used throughout the Mediterranean. So now Spain has their own share of tobacco ready for export as they were importing it as well, this is where Britain joined the craze.
English Colonists preferred the Spanish tobacco over the Virginian ones. The Virginian tobacco was produced and exported from Virginia but the Spanish tobacco was a different sort which was grown in the Caribbean as tobacco could not be grow in European land. The Spanish tobacco was sold in higher quantities and for much higher price, but nevertheless it was the favoured one by the public, so merchants imported