There is definitely more to be said here about the gendering of tobacco use when it began to be used by Europeans, but you may be interested in the gendering of tobacco use when cigarettes were adopted, which I discuss in these previous answers:

When did it become socially acceptable in the United States for women to smoke?

In Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," the character Julia is depicted as smoking as a 19-year-old in 1923. Is this historically accurate? I know about "torches of freedom," but when and how did women in Europe start smoking?