Kikuyu men smoking cigarettes while playing cards in 1922 at that time, cigarettes and match-boxes were free.
Cigarette companies put up booths in major commercial centres to supply the free fags. Soon the free offers were withdrawn but the addiction had already set in.
@Ndindu vindicated: kila kitu nikuletewa. Mnakubali kama nugu ikitupiwa ndizi, no questions asked. Soon utasikia Bill Lango amepeana mabilioni ya mradi mwingine haueleweki, and fools will clap.
Kukes used to grow tobacco (Mbakī) long before the mzungu came.
The addiction was already there.
It’s only that the mzungu commercialised it by introducing cigarettes.