In early human society, tobacco has been given a mysterious, smoking is one of sacrifice ritual ceremony. Meanwhile, tobacco was used as medicine for treatment.

According to archaeological analysis, in 3500 years ago, American residents have the habit of smoking. Chiapas in southern Mexico, still retains the Mayan priest wearing a dress suck tubular pipe of stone reliefs, it is recognized as the world smoking is the oldest map. North American Indians also have a long history of smoking, their smoking can and religion. Indians held for adults in the ceremony, the young people who smoke blown to pray for their future to happiness.

Oriental worship also rely on tobacco, which is burning incense and raw real "smell smoke." Smoking is the messenger between man and God, all the wishes, all prayer, all the prayers are with this strand of thin cigarette blown in front of the gods. It is said that early period of Fu Xi had to burn the aroma of firewood trees distributed to worship heaven and earth, to pray God’s "burnt wood offering." Today, many temples still is the incense smoke.

Christians also believe that Jesus Christ and his communication is to convey through the offerings. For example, the Middle Ages in Europe, tobacco is often mixed together with incense as a church for the fragrance, then there is such a decoration Cathedral in London.