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Chillum # (Psychoactives)

1. A simple pipe made in a tube or funnel shape, often of clay, but sometimes of metal or wood. Most commonly associated with cannabis smoking, but can be and is used for smoking anything. Perhaps the simplest of pipes, the general concept is that the hands act as one chamber of the pipe and the mouth is placed against the hands and when the smoker breathes in, the air is pulled through the chillum.
Smoking material is placed in one end (the larger or bowl-shaped end). In the single-handed style, a hollow fist is made with one hand with the finger tips all touching the palm tightly and the narrower end of the chillum is placed between the second and third fingers. The mouth is placed against the thumb-side opening in the hollow fist. The material is lit and the smoker inhales through the hand-chamber and adjusts the fingers so that suction is created through the pipe. One benefit of this style of pipe smoking is that it is fairly easy to regulat the air/smoke mixture to cool the incoming smoke.
Using two hands cupped together to form the pipe chamber is common and there are many variants of how to hold the hands. A variant of this can be seen in the Cannabis Vault.
Chillum smoking is quite common in southern Asia (India and nearby countries). It is well known in subcultures in the Americas and Europe.
2. "Chillum-style" joint smoking: Using a cannabis cigarette or joint as the pipe and placing the unlit end between the fingers is sometimes called "chillum-style" joint smoking. It both allows for more cooling of the smoke as well as avoiding contact with the saliva of others when sharing joints in groups. This style is sometimes used when people with colds or flus are asked not to put their lips on shared pipes or joints and also allows for "shotgunning" a joint.

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