:dh: Oh good grief Zig..!! To think they chewed it back then..!! Thast is more dangerous than smoking it as far as cancer is concerned... I bet they had a huge amount of mouth cancers & never knew it...!!!!!!! :dh:
Probably didn't live long enough to get cancer Marley. Hunter gatherers life expectancy was about 30.
Smooth old charmers, though - blowing fags in the faces of their women. They knew how to show a girl a good time in those days. :hehe:
We have some very strange habits when it comes to tobacco/smoking. http://www.google.co.uk/images?oe=u...tle&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQsAQwAQ&biw=1594&bih=673
s00kAsthma cigarettes..... Oh my word no way...!!!! s00k I do know someone who smokes these & they are very weird..... There are so many cloves in each cigarette his tongue goes numb...!!!!! :roll: Just don't understand some people......
It appears that some of this stuff actually worked, this is about the good old Datura that they all love to hate. http://drugstoremuseum.com/sections/level_info2.php?level_id=79&level=2
Very interesting Pete. I get the occasional asthma attack, usually related to something i've eaten or inhaling a large tabby cat. Can't say smoking has ever made it worse, in fact it sometimes helps me to cough the cat up.