Contrary to the generally accepted belief that it was Muhammad Ali Pasha, the governor of Egypt, who introduced smoking to Egypt through his use of hookah, the Egyptians knew the tobacco industry andSmoking and drinking cigarettes In 1601, specifically during the Mamluk era, tobacco entered Egypt for the first time, and it was used by chewing, and with the accession of Muhammad Ali Pasha to rule Egypt, it monopolized its cultivation in Fayoum governorate and was the first governorate where it was cultivated.
Sheikh of historians Abdul Rahman Al-Jabarti said “ " the Ottoman governor issued orders banning smoking in the streets, shops and doors of houses, and stressed the struggle against those who do this, and the order reached the death penalty, and people considered it an ugly obscene habit.
Perhaps many do not know the story of President Gamal Abdel Nasser with the production of Cleopatra cigarettes, nor do they know that the Egyptians with the early twentieth century entered this field and aggressively, competed with the Armenians and the English and were able to conquer them, until foreign companies working with smoking in Egypt condemned them.
Source : Vito
