"The first tobacco pipes found in Europe, from around 500 BC, were made of wooden stems or reed. Nomadic Indo-Europeans, the Scythians, used them to inhale the smoke from campfires. In turn, Greeks and Romans adopted the tobacco pipe, as well as Germanic peoples and Celtic tribes, who used them to smoke all sorts of herbs, and particularly the leaves from linden trees."
Complete bullshit, as tobacco was not available in Europe then.
Tobacco as we know it today, and the culture that surrounds it, come from America. Over 500 years ago, American-Indians cultivated this plant as a medicinal treatment, but also to smoke it. They rolled up tobacco leaves in the shape of a large cigar that they called ‘tabaco’. They burned these tobacco leaves, along with the other herbs, in their famous tobacco pipe, which we now know as the ‘calumet’.
Evidence is that some 2000 years before that, some native Americans were using tobacco. Apparently it was chewed or drunk for the most part.
Complete bullshit, as tobacco was not available in Europe then.
Tobacco as we know it today, and the culture that surrounds it, come from America. Over 500 years ago, American-Indians cultivated this plant as a medicinal treatment, but also to smoke it. They rolled up tobacco leaves in the shape of a large cigar that they called ‘tabaco’. They burned these tobacco leaves, along with the other herbs, in their famous tobacco pipe, which we now know as the ‘calumet’.
Evidence is that some 2000 years before that, some native Americans were using tobacco. Apparently it was chewed or drunk for the most part.