One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for July 01, 2010

British?

Actually shredded cigarette butts make an excellent insecticide when mixed in with mulch; they’ll even kill ticks. They contain so much poison that if toddlers eat them they can end up in the hospital.

@sottwell–that is the very reason that tobacco chewers spit instead of swallow. It’s poison and no doubt about it.

Yea my brother-in-law uses chewin tobacco. Yuc.

I quit smoking for 3 years by chewing. Nasty! Carrying a travel mug for spitting. Forgetting it wasn’t my coffee mug. Stains on most of my clothes. Stains on Ex-girlfriends rugs and furniture. Nasty, nasty nasty! Even my mother was relieved when I went back to polluting my lungs.

Young guy seated next to me on my flight home from Rome last summer, spent the entire 9 hours spitting into a cup that he held just inches from my face. Bleaaagghhh!

I’ve said again, and I enjoy saying it again. I quit smoking 38 years ago…at the age of 12! The reason: Lack of interest. Which was one smartest things I’ve ever did.

I’ve never done either (smoked or chewed), but have dated guys who did. The things I tolerated for “love”… never again.

So now we’re not supposed to smoke near the freakin’ trees because they might be sensative?

The government wants ALL of us to BUY cigarettes, so they can get the tax revenues. Then, they refuse to let you have anywhere that you can smoke them. Just buy a carton, and throw it out- - -DO NOT “light” them!

The discussion reminds me of a bit of old doggerel:

Ten thousand Swedes ran through the weeds At the battle of Copenhagen. Ten thousand Swedes ran through the weeds Chased by one Norwegian.

And the dust of the weeds Made snoose for the Swedes– And they called it…

COPENHAGEN!

Lady, you’re way out of your league.

So right you are, MrP!