I smoked it out of an opium pipe. /shrug

Carb-less ebony pipe. The bowl even screwed off and back onto the pipe in a vertical position so the pipe was a straight upward line when you were smoking it so you could lay on your back or in a big fluffy chair.

Basically, all you had to do was put a flame on the ball of opium and puff it until it was lit. It would stay lit until it was done.