Editing Tobacco pipe (section)

==History==
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[[File:Inlayed Pipe Bowl with Two Faces, early 19th century,50.67.104.jpg|thumbnail|''Inlayed Pipe Bowl with Two Faces'', early 19th century, [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]

Some cultures of the [[indigenous peoples of the Americas]] smoke tobacco in [[ceremonial pipe]]s, and have done so since long before the arrival of Europeans. For instance the [[Lakota People|Lakota people]] use a ceremonial pipe called [[Chanunpa|'''čhaŋnúŋpa''']]. Other cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas smoke tobacco socially.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = "Episode 11 Tobacco Pipes" by Robert Cassanello|url = http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/11/|journal = A History of Central Florida Podcast| date=January 2014 |access-date = 2016-01-11 | last1=Cassanello | first1=Robert }}</ref> The tobacco plant is native to South America but spread into North America long before Europeans arrived. Tobacco was introduced to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century and spread around the world rapidly.

As [[tobacco]] was not introduced to the [[Old World]] until the 16th century,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Davey|first1=Mike|title=The European Tobacco Trade From the 15th to the 17th Centuries|url=https://www.lib.umn.edu/bell/tradeproducts/tobacco|website=University of Minnesota|access-date=31 December 2017|archive-date=6 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106223240/https://www.lib.umn.edu/bell/tradeproducts/tobacco|url-status=dead}}</ref> the older pipes outside of the Americas were usually used to smoke various other substances, including [[hashish]], a rare and expensive substance outside areas of the Middle East, Central Asia and India, where it was then produced. {{citation needed|date=September 2017}}