6-514: A chillum , or chilam , is a straight conical smoking pipe traditionally made of either clay or a soft stone (such as steatite or catlinite ). It was used popularly in India in the eighteenth century and still often used to smoke marijuana . A small stone is often used as a stopper in the stem. The style of pipe spread to Africa, and has been known in the Americas since the 1960s. A chillum pipe
12-456: A chillum is used. It is made of a cow's horn or conical wood piece, fitted with a long drawtube giving the smoke time to cool before inhalation. A bong -like chillum equipped with a water filtration chamber is sometimes referred to as a chalice . Rastafaris offer thanks and praises to God (referred to as Jah in Rastafari) before smoking the chillum. Smoking pipe A smoking pipe
18-488: A tobaccophile of Europe.” Typically, these young folk did their smoking in smoking rooms or parlors, also known as “tobacco houses.” They smoked for social habit, usually with other smokers. “It took more than a century for this new practice to come into fashion.” The popularity of pipes grew interest in artists. Although pipes has once been associated with the lower class, it turned into a symbol of prestige and vanity. Images of pipes could be found in numerous painting during
24-619: Is used in Rastafari rituals. According to Alfred Dunhill , Africans have long employed chillum-style pipes for smoking cannabis and later tobacco. Gourds and various horns were often employed while conical bowls were common in Uganda . One of the more famous pipes is an ivory cone pipe once belonging to Buganda monarch King Mtesa . More recently, it has also seen use in sacraments by Rastafari . In Rastafarian meetings called "reasoning sessions" and during Grounation Day celebrations,
30-520: Is used to taste the smoke of a burning substance; most common is a tobacco pipe . Pipes are commonly made from briar , heather , corncob , meerschaum , clay , cherry , glass , porcelain , ebonite and acrylic . During the 17th century, pipe smoking became a new trend among the Dutch young, in specific the upper and middle class students. These students copied the Spanish sailors and soldiers in
36-495: The area by joining them in participation of pipe smoking. In particular they were interested in the novelty it brought, which was the taste of smoke. However, the only way to smoke tobacco was through a pipe. Popularity grew throughout and became a mainstream habit for the Dutch during this time. “In a relatively short period of time, from 1590 to 1650, the Dutch Republic had gone from being a country of non-smokers to being
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