Fancy a puff?

Reed smoking tubes, an early form of pipe, were used for smoking tobacco and grasses, and were made as follows:-

The man who makes tubes for sucking smoke first of all cuts the reed and removes the leaves, cleaning it thoroughly. He grinds up the charcoal with which to line the reeds. Then he paints some and gilds others... The painting work on some is hidden and only appears when they begin to burn... There are lots of kinds of these tubes and they are filled with many different aromatic herbs, which are ground up and mixed together. They must be packed with rose petals, aromatic spices, bitumen, mushrooms ... and iztzyetl, which is a kind of grass...

Indigenous smoking pipes in a Mexican museum

In ancient Mesoamerica people smoked not only during banquets but also in religious ceremonies; besides pipes, which were filled with various herbs and grasses, they also smoked cigars made by rolling up tobacco leaves.
According to Francisco Hernández, official physician of the Spanish royal court, smoking this mixture ‘induces sleep, weakens all sensations of pain or fatigue, calms headaches, alleviates asthma, and strengthens the stomach’ - but excess use can cause ‘incurable illnesses’ (Berdan & Rieff Anawalt, 1992, 2: 218).
In Aztec feasts ‘the tobacco servers followed a formalised ritual when distributing the smoking canes to guests. They offered the elongated, spear-shaped tubes with their right hand - the hand that customarily held a spear or spear thrower in battle. The round “ashtray” in which the burning tube would rest, symbolising the shield, was carried in the server’s left hand.’ (ibid).
As Fray Diego Durán put it: ‘A feast without tobacco was not a real feast’... (1964:102).

Feasting in honour of a new-born child; Florentine Codex Book IV. Note the smoking tubes resting on 3-legged ashtrays...