• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I mean, nicotine is a natural pesticide made by tobacco plants. It’s kinda the same with capsaicin and humans love that shit. Plus inducing vomiting could potentially get those lil’ critters outta there. In a life or death situation this would probably be preferable to dying, at least.

    Realistically this is probably an older manual and shouldn’t be followed to the letter. You should not be eating less than 2 cigarettes a day.

    No, seriously, don’t eat cigarettes.

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      3 months ago

      Btw for the capsaicin thing. It’s one of the going theories for why warmer places all around earth tend to traditionally eat much spicier foods than colder places. Food spoils faster in the heat, and the spice both masks the spoilt taste and can help, or is thought to help, cleanse you of parasites.

      (I know spicy plants don’t grow in colder places, too, but the tendency holds for colder regions that would have had access to hot plants)

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    3 months ago

    I wonder how tobacco/nicotine pouches compares. I ingest around 100-mg of nicotine with those daily

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    I spray my garden with couple of cigarettes worth of tobacco water once in a while - works great as a natural insecticide!

    I also used to live next to a tobacco plantation in Thailand once and the plant itself is quite incredible - basically untouchable by disease or insects so completly hands free and the fields are really cozy.