As a child of the 60's, we would try anything to get high....for example, you can get quite a buzz if you smoke a commercial cigarette with a similar technique that would be used to smoke a joint. The effect of smoking a bowl of tobacco in a bong, and inhaling (basically the amount of smoke of one cigarette) in one long drag would be pretty overwhelming. And, if 'quality' of the high has any importance in this discussion, this would be pretty low level - perhaps on the order of sniffing solvents or glue, IMHO...