Monday, March 23, 2009

Today I learned (3/23/09)

Today I learned that pipes, cigarettes, and cigars are all native american inventions. In Europe they had been smoking herbs (like coltsfoot) for medicinal reasons long before tobacco was introduced, however they inhaled smoke from the burning leaves in a more primitive manner.
(Euell Gibbons, Stalking the Healthful Herbs)

1 comments:

suZen said...

This probably turned out to be one of things we could have done without. Doubtful it was as addictive as the mfgrs. make it nowadays.