Tobacco was a very popular trade item in the West. Used by both Indians and Whites. it was traded and gifted on a very regular basis.

From Bradbury:
It was judged expedient to trade with the Indians for some jerked
buffalo meat, and more than 1000 lbs. was obtained for as much tobacco as cost two dollars.

I observed that, as before, in smoking the pipe they did not
make use of tobacco, but the bark of cornus sanguinea, or red dog wood, mixed with the leaves of
rhus glabrum, or smooth sumach. This mixture they call kinnikineck. After we had smoked, they
spoke of the poverty of their tribes, and concluded by saying they expected a present. A few
carrottes of tobacco and bags of corn were laid at their feet, with which they appeared satisfied

From W.A. Ferris:
The following afternoon we passed a Pawnee village situated on the opposite bank of
the river, and sent, as customary, a present of tobacco, powder, balls etc., to these tribute‑taking
lords of forest, field and flood, the heart of whose wild dominion we are now traversing.

From Wilson Price Hunt:
I pleased them no end when I told them that I would return to
their village with merchandise to trade for beaver. They already had some pelts and they told a
very confusing tale about some white men who came to trade and who gave them tobacco and
smoked with them. One of the white men, they said, had a house on the Columbia.

From Gen. Thomas James:
The “talk” being had, Lechat produced the calama or pipe, and we smoked
together in the manner of the Indians. I sent to my store and procured six plugs of tobacco and
some handkerchiefs, which I presented to him and his company, telling them when they smoked
the tobacco with their Chiefs to remember the Americans, and treat all who visited their country
from mine as they would their own brothers.

From Larpenteur:
and the trappers commenced to buy
their little outfits, consisting of blankets, scarlet shirts, tobacco, and some few trinkets to trade
with the Snake Indians, during which transactions I officiated as clerk.

Alfred Jacob Miller, A Shoshone Indian Smoking

Handkerchiefs are a good gift!
I’m always losing mine