Sorry about last week, I was out in the deer woods.

Smoking tobacco was very common during the fur trade era. Men carried pipes, typically small clay ones, in a variety of ways.
Some tucked into a hatband, others in pouches at their waist or little pouches around their necks.
The little pouches were sometimes called gage d'amor (*badge of love). They were often made by a young Native sweetheart of the trapper.

Here are a few references to tobacco pipes.

From W.A. Ferris
After supper we reclined on our elbows about the fire, produced our pipes and tuned them to a
smoke, recounted tales, puffed ourselves, and old times, and quizzed, joked and jested with one
another until eight o’clock

From Washington Irving's The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, describing a free trapper:
A blanket of scarlet, or some other bright
color, hangs from his shoulders, and is girt around his waist with a red sash, in which he bestows
his pistols, knife, and the stem of his Indian pipe; preparations either for peace or war.

From Osborne Russell:
The next morning at daybreak I arose and kindled a fire and seeing the mules grazing at a short distance I
filled my tobacco pipe and sat down to Smoke

Trappers equipments in such
cases is generally one Animal upon which is placed one or two Epishemores a riding Saddle and
bridle a sack containing six Beaver traps a blanket with an extra pair of Mocasins his powder horn
and bullet pouch with a belt to which is attached a butcher Knife a small wooden box containing
bait for Beaver a Tobacco sack with a pipe and implements for making fire with sometimes a
hatchet

From George Frederick Ruxton:
I had nearly forgotten the pipe-holder, which
hangs round his neck, and is generally a gage d’amour, and a triumph of squaw workmanship, in
shape of a heart, garnished with beads and porcupine-quills.

a wide-awake hat, with a short pipe stuck in the band

Antoine Clement, by Alfred Jacob Miller, wearing a gage d'amor.

First thing in the morning taking a big drag, ughh!

I wonder what could have been traded if somebody showed up at a campfire on chilly spring morning, beaver pelts prime, ice just melting, beaver on the move, with a pound of coffee.

A pound of coffee would be like gold to them at that time of the year.

I'll try to dig up some stuff about that next week. Tobacco and coffee were very popular, and sought after, trade items.