Sure. But remember, I'm just a whitey repeating what I've been told, directly and indirectly, along with what I've read. The original source is always best.

Oh, something I did't include in my rant, and I don't know if you picked it up in any of the links I gave you, the plant, Pituri, was not smoked, but combined with ash and chewed. This gum was stuck behind the ear to always have it on hand. Socially, they (the old men, the elders) would then pass it around and chew it until it was returned to the owner who would stick it behind his ear again. So it was kind of like chewing tobacco and a nicotine patch. Sometimes, fact is stranger than fiction. ;-)