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["Alfred W. Tüting"]

 >  It's around elsewhere. The verb 'to drink' is used for smoking 
tobacco in several Eastern Algonquian languages. For example, in
Massachusett-Narragansett, the word for 'tobacco' literally means 'what 
one drinks'.

Dave Costa <<


Oh, it's only now that I recall my boyhood's Karl May novels, where 'my' 
Indians would have used words such as "mein weißer Bruder möge den Rauch 
mit uns trinken..." (... drink smoke). You see, Karl May - although 
often called Trivialliteratur (cheap literature) - was based on grounds 
not at all too bad :))

Alfred