Is there a useful purpose for Tobacco?

[jaF0]

We all know the general use purposes and how harmful they are. But we also know that many products have some lesser known uses that are far more beneficial. Does Tobacco have any?

I'm curious because of all the tobacco farmers who have all but gone out of business and if there might be incentives for them to grow it again.

 

[Saint Peter]

We could stuff it in the mouths of all those that bitch about cigar smokers.

 

[thør]

Wet tobacco gets the bug and road grime off the car windows.

 

[someoneyouknow]

To employ doctors. Specifically, oncologists.

 

[FGB]

Yes.

https://www.famous-smoke.com/cigaradvisor/alternative-uses-tobacco

 

[MGurkus]

I give it to the red man for pelts and beads.

 

[Hypoxia]

Great insecticide / pesticide.
OK skin-tint if you want to pass as black.
Shows that one is not a deep thinker.

 

[Matthew Craig]

It's a stimulant. Makes your pecker hard and puts hair on your chest boy!

 

[colddiesel]

In an emergency you can wipe your ass with Tobacco leaf - then give it to Matthew Craig and he'll smoke it - an environmentally friendly solution.

 

[OldJourno]

The Trump administration is in talks with tobacco farmers over a plan to shower free cigarettes on residents of Muslim majority countries. The U.S. government, Trump told the farmers, will pay top dollar for the tobacco, which will still be manufactured at already existing plants into high-tar, additive-packed cigarettes.
In addition to providing cigarettes, including those thoughtfully provided in school lunches, the U.S. government will also distribute literature about the benefits of tobacco.
That includes reviving the Joe Camel ad campaign, which always made more sense for the Middle East anyway, as well as kiddie-lit featuring the "Abdul is Cool with Kool" comic books.

 

[Hypoxia]

That includes reviving the Joe Camel ad campaign, which always made more sense for the Middle East anyway, as well as kiddie-lit featuring the "Abdul is Cool with Kool" comic books.

The soundtrack music will of course be "Ahab the Arab".

 

[Liar]

Snus protects against caries.

...while rotting your gums.

 

[EternalFantasies]

I read an article once that it helps with bowel movements, and smokers who get IBD can't go cold turkey but need a few a day for bowel movements, then reduce overtime.

 

[pointless]

nicotine interacts with anti-psychotics in a way that makes it so you can take fewer of them to get beneficial results and thus have fewer side effects.

this is good news for far too many of you cunts.

 

[Rightguide]

It was legal tender in colonial Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Carolinas at that point in American history.

 

[EternalFantasies]

It was legal tender in colonial Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Carolinas at that point in American history.

We could use methadone now.

 

[pointless]

speak of the devil and he shall appear.

 

[Carnevil9]

Face it: smoking is cool, and everyone knows it.

 

[doowdniw]

Tobacco: The original gateway drug.

 

[Sean]

It was legal tender in colonial Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Carolinas at that point in American history.

Like cans of corn in Viet Nam?

 

[Matthew Craig]

In an emergency you can wipe your ass with Tobacco leaf - then give it to Matthew Craig and he'll smoke it - an environmentally friendly solution.

Say that to my face motherfucker!

 

[Hypoxia]

Tobacco: The original gateway drug.

Naw, people were drinking booze and eating hallucinogenic mushrooms long before Sir Walter Raleigh desolated Europe with that Central American dope.

More uses: Cigarettes as bomb fuses and candle wicks. Cigars as Clintonesque sex toys. Pipe tobacco mixed with cannabis masks the pot smell. And of course lit cigs are traditional torture tools.

Long ago I owned a series of small books on the history of tobacco, written and self-published by poet and songwriter Tuli Kupferberg of the East Village Fugs. Fascinating stuff. I'll have to try to find those again.

Meanwhile: Under Britain's King James I (the guy who commissioned that bible) possession was a capitol crime. Too bad he couldn't enforce it. Prohibition usually fails. Many Native Americans used tobacco only in holy or healing rituals. Suppose you had to attend mass for a cigarette?

Damn, this all makes me want a smoke. I have a couple cigarillos waiting for me for some months. I think that when my partner is at the dentist's tomorrow I'll adjourn to the porch, pour a stiff rum drink, light up, and consider the world, or at least my mountain meadow.

 

[doowdniw]

I don't know about mushrooms, but they were drinking booze because they couldn't drink the water.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Makes a good pesticide if you process it right.