Not just a star anymore!

[hdroadglide]

Tobacco was used in the New World for social recreational, religious, medicinal and political purposes.

and it still is.

 

[Moro]

I seriously doubt this, mostly because vodun as a religion (vodun is the actual name for voodoo), spawned in Africa and from there went to SOUTH America and not CENTRAL, where the tobacco use was important.

I just took out a book and I stand corrected, I got confused there, for vodun was originally from Haiti and the West Indies (close enough to Cuba) and did use tobacco, along with other things in their rituals.

PS - Sorry, too many cults in Latin America to keep up with it; yet tobacco into South America was indeed not important.

EDIT - Yet I see nothing on wishing on tobacco...it was mostly used as an offering.

 

[Moro]

and it still is.

I'd love to agree; but the two in the middle...not so sure.

 

[hdroadglide]

some worship at the altar of pete......
and one could make an argument for using a cigar as an antidepressant?:smile:

 

[Moro]

some worship at the altar of pete......
and one could make an argument for using a cigar as an antidepressant?:smile:

I'd much rather a cigar than Xanax!

 

[hdroadglide]

I'd much rather a cigar than Xanax!

and you don't need a prescription!