I'm not a huge smoker, but occasionally I like to smoke out of my pipes. Are you a big smoker or what?
I have smoked with a pipe before. It is the oldest form of smoking.
Oh really? That's really interesting, so what were some of the first things that people smoked?
Native Americans smoked tobacco long before Europeans arrived. They had ceremonial pipes to perform their rituals.
So they did they also smoke tobacco recreationally or was it seen as strictly a religious, ceremonal herb?
Both. They also smoked to seal covenants and treaties. This is where we get the term "peace pipe" from.
That makes a lot of sense, did any other places in the world grow and cultivate tobacco to smoke in their pipes?
American cultures have pipe-smoking traditions, which have been part of their cultures since long before the arrival of Europeans. Tobacco is often smoked, generally for ceremonial purposes, though other mixtures of sacred herbs are also common. Various types of ceremonial pipes have been smoked in ceremony to seal covenants and treaties, most notably treaties of peace (hence the misnomer, "peace pipe"). Tobacco was introduced to Europe from the Americas in the sixteenth century and spread around the world rapidly.
In Asia during the nineteenth
also occasionally be smoked in a more uncommon pipe known as a "điếu ống". The pipe is filled with an appropriate amount of water and a small amount of thuốc lào is pressed into the bowl.
One then ignites the tobacco and inhales to create a body of smoke inside the pipe, before exhaling the smoke, reversing the process of air in the pipe by blowing into it to pop out the tobacco. The smoker then sharply inhales, usually tilting the pipe upwards to an almost horizontal position (but not