As a rule Ganja smokes were to be found at shrines or temples, religious mendicants and lower order of Brahmans being the Chief addicts. The plant washed four or five times, dried and mixed with tobacco was smoked in whiffs about every half hour by the addict. Its effects were sudden and strong. By Rajputs opium was onc3 held in high esteem as the seal of hospitality and the great healer of dispute. It was offered dissolved in water in cups as token of goodwill to guests who drank it in small quantity.
Tobacco is smoked in pipes or in cigarettes or bidis.
Tobacco to be smoked in the hukka or hubble-bubble is known as for gudakhu which is specially processed with molasses, and water, and is principally used by garasias or landed proprietors and better class people. Except a few Brahmans, among Hindus men of all classes smoke tobacco. Women seldom smoke a pipe, but many among the labouring and cultivating classes use bidis or cigarettes. Tea-drinking has become very common in the middle class families and the artisan classes including mechanics, drivers and other hard manual labourers. It has become almost a habit wirh the cultivating class or the lower income-group in the village.