A Mayan spirit smoking tobacco.
Did you know that the earliest evidence of tobacco use dates back to the Mayan culture between 2500BC and 500AD? These Central American people used it as medicine, for ritual celebration, and for pleasure. Archeologists have found strange pipes used for smoking tobacco through both nostrils, as well as drawings depicting cigars three feet in length. Another application was to brew tobacco into a tea. It was then either ingested, or administered via an enema. Either way, the results gave mixed results, ranging from a mild illness to death. Whatever the outcome, tobacco use caught on, and migrated from the Mayans, to every culture in the Americas.1 Ultimately becoming a worldwide phenomenon.
1 From the book Tobacco, A Cultural History of How An Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization by Iain Gately.
Mayans were( and are ) in Central America, not South America.
Thanks for the clarification.