Dear Carol,
Is 1000 tobacco plants hyperbole, or is that your annual requirement, or do you
process some of the tobacco into insecticides?
Carol:
I'm with you.
Planted tobacco the first time this year (only 200 plants).
Tobacco is *not* bad for you in it's natural state. I once heard a
Native American shaman lecture on this subject - and it was confirmed
for me by a local (Va.) nurse.
Did you know that the average commercially-produced cigarette has over
TWO HUNDRED ingredients???????? The natural stuff comes only with ONE.
More bad stuff fed to us by the corporations -
Robert.
> Dear Carol,
> Is 1000 tobacco plants hyperbole, or is that your annual requirement, or do you
> process some of the tobacco into insecticides?
Well, my daughter and kids went on a bike trip last summer and came by a tobacco place and bought 10,000 seeds. She sowed them all and gave them to me very late, so I harvested them 3 months late. There are still 3 in the ground (it got warmer after the frost warning). When I hang them up, I can count them - right now they are put over my many cardboard boxes with dry wood on one side of the wood stove (I am not the neatest person in the world; my friends say that I am enamoured of cardboard boxes, and they may just be right).
I bought seeds again from the same place and they do say that there are 10,000 seeds in the packet.
I hope to make bidis of them, since I believe that filters, all paper except real rice paper and most glues are very bad for people. Unlike most Americans, I don't believe tobacco is bad for you in the natural state. Only one tobacco company in the US makes "natural" cigarettes; they're called American Spirit.
Wow, I love to write emails, don't I!
Carol
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> Tobacco is *not* bad for you in it's natural state. I once heard a
> Native American shaman lecture on this subject - and it was confirmed
> for me by a local (Va.) nurse.
I seriously doubt that the shaman was a heavy smoker either -- he probably
didn't light up his ceremonial pipe to the equivalent of a pack or two of
smokes a day. Most things done in moderation aren't all that bad for you.
But smoking in moderation is not common either.
Gloria
Organically Gardening in Illinois, USDA Zone 5B
Genetically Modified Crops? JUST SAY NO
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Folks, nicotine is an alkaloid that may paralyze the autonomic nervous
system and cause convulsions and death, according to the online Encarta
encyclopedia. I've heard of soaking nicotine leaves in water to concoct an
insecticide spray. Children who come along and taste it may die. I've also
heard that holding your hand in that water can also kill you.
I smoked for many years, too many years. Yeah, yeah, I heard the stories
about heart problems and lung cancer. Heard no stories about peripheral
vascular problems. Now I sit here with one and a half legs...and don't need
to hear more about PV problems. I stopped smoking nine years ago, when John
Chancellor observed that President Bush was going to a drug summit to try
to stop the flow of cocaine, that was expected to kill about 300 people in
the U.S. that year. Nicotine, OTOH, was expected to kill about 300,000.
What would the U.S. do if SA countries subsidized the growing of coca?
Margaret L
