From the history of pipe

Despite the fact that the pipe appeared in ancient China, the birthplace of American tobacco as it was adopted. Indians of the Orinoco river valley are grown tobacco since time immemorial and mixing tobacco with herbs, they have used this plant in the religious and medical rituals. Everyone knows about the ritual called peace pipe. According to custom, during the making of the world, they smoked the pipe with the enemy.

Nothing is known about the first people who smoked a pipe. Perhaps it was Columbus who brought the tobacco in the New World. Pipe steel modern habit, and now he is a permanent attribute of the sea dogs.

But all was not well in the history of the pipe. In the early 17 th century English King James I called a pipe "diabolical invention" and "call God" Daddy threatened with excommunication pipe smokers. In Switzerland, smoking was punished, as well as adultery. In Russia, smokers pipes were torn out and sent to Siberia, and executed those who had been caught a second time. However, despite bans on smoking, a passion for tobacco is attracting more and more people and the rulers had to make concessions for smokers.

In 1635, King Louis XIII of France, smoking is allowed on prescription. In 30 years, when the plague hit Europe, the pipe was considered a panacea for all illnesses. Gradually, to stop the persecution and the golden age of pipe came. In the XIX century, when cigars and cigarettes scattered around the world, pipe lost his followers, who became a symbol of elegance and the standard of good manners.