Please tell me you don't believe this. Smallpox decimated the Old and New World, and has been around for many millennia (found in Egyptian mummies), while tobacco was introduced to Europe in 1492. Tobacco is an indirect killer, weakening the system in combination with other factors. As such the tobacco death toll can be interpreted within a wide range. Smallpox kills ca 30% of those who contract it (except for indigenous Americans who seemed to have been unusually susceptible, closer to 70-80%) and pre-vaccine you almost certainly WOULD contract it. God bless Edward Jenner, without his work many of us wouldn't have the luxury of being alive.
https://youtu.be/82go6P7DES4
Koplow, David A. (2003). Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fenner, F.; Henderson, D.A.; Arita, I.; Jezek, Z.; Ladnyi, I.D. (1988). Smallpox and Its Eradication (PDF). History of International Public Health, No. 6. Geneva: World Health Organization.
Well that thing is called an Ocean and we Europeans are really glad it exists, because even reading about what's going on in North America makes us sick.
https://youtu.be/82go6P7DES4
Koplow, David A. (2003). Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fenner, F.; Henderson, D.A.; Arita, I.; Jezek, Z.; Ladnyi, I.D. (1988). Smallpox and Its Eradication (PDF). History of International Public Health, No. 6. Geneva: World Health Organization.