why was tobacco so important to jamestown colony
Tobacco can well be credited with making Jamestown the first permanent English colony in the New World. So tobacco has been a critical crop and an ingrained habit for many years, well before cigarettes were even invented.he Jamestown colonists had not found gold, nor a route to the South Seas, nor the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. But they had found tobacco. Tobacco had brought the settlement from wretched failure to giddying success.