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Very nice. Is that some kind of US military standard issue cigarette? Because they so many varieties in content now.

• CamperBob2 12y ago
  Also, if eating cigarettes doesn't work, you can apparently try drinking "2 tablespoons of kerosene but no more."
  • zxcdw 12y ago
    From a document called "Combat Survival and Evasion": > Depending upon the supplies, there is a worm remedy: swallow a couple of tablespoons of kerosene or gasoline. Kerosene is more effective but gasoline will do. Either will make you a bit sick, but will make the worms a lot sicker. It's amazing how the wording is very similar. This document is from sometime in 50's I think, written by a Korean(?) war vet (talks about his time being a POW and "stealing" a wooden house board by board until it was slowly gone altogether. The Chinese guards were confused but weren't amused.)
  • Spooky23 12y ago
    A common cough remedy in rural areas was a two tablespoons of kerosene chased by a tablespoon if honey.
    • JabavuAdams 12y ago
      The cancer cured my cough. Wow.
• valarauca1 12y ago
  To your actual question yes and no. In the past, yes. Currently no. I think its more the principle. Nicotine, like caffine was evolved by planets as a pesticide. Animals (like parasites) that don't normally come in contact with it, likely don't have resitances to it. Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison.
  • gwern 12y ago
    > Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison. I don't know about 'advanced'; my understanding was that our protein were simply slightly different, enough to make nicotine not a potent poison, but just another substance you don't want to take too much of.
  • pessimizer 12y ago
    >Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison. I think it takes eating four cigarettes to kill you.
    • aranazo 12y ago
      A cigarette contains up to a gram of tobacco with a nicotine content of 0.5 to 2 percent. A recent estimate of nicotine's human LD50 is in the range of 0.5 to 1 grams. A four cigarette dose would seem unlikely to be lethal.
      • pessimizer 12y ago
        http://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/chemical/nicotine.htm#PartTitle:7.%20TOXICOLOGY http://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/chemical/nicotine.htm#P... 7.2.1 Human data 7.2.1.1 Adults The mean lethal dose has been estimated to be 30 to 60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) (Gosselin, 1988). 7.2.1.2 Children The lethal dose is considered to be about 10 mg of nicotine (Arena, 1974). 7.2.2 Relevant animal data Dog: oral LD50: 9.2 mg/kg mouse: oral LD50: 3.3 mg/kg (RTECS, 1985-86) rat: oral LD50: 50 mg/kg 0.5-1.0 mg/kg, not 0.5-1.0 grams. Don't go eating cigarettes. edit: http://abcnews.go.com/US/paul-curry-convicted-1994-nicotine-poisoning-death-wife/story?id=25881116 http://abcnews.go.com/US/paul-curry-convicted-1994-nicotine-... edit2: I see what you saw - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00204-013-1127-0/fulltext.html http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00204-013-1127-0...
    • axaxs 12y ago
      That's nowhere near true...