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Look Sea Enterprises :: Smoke Pipe
Before the 15th century A.D. mankind had been using pipes of various mediums for medicinal and religious purposes. In the New World, the civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayans, Toltec, and other Native American cultures utilized pipes to heal various maladies as well as to commemorate religious and commercial events. In Africa, various cultures would sniff or inhale through tubes various herbs also for medicinal or religious purposes and recent archaeological evidence has surfaced to indicate that the Egyptians used some sort of tobacco for mummification purposes. In any event, the first culture to couple tobacco with a pipe-like device for smoking must have been the Mayans of Mexico and Central America.
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