• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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      2 days ago

      I am sure they think that it is the tobacco that is a insecticide and not the nicotine that was added to said tobacco…

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        They don’t add nicotine to tobacco, tobacco plants produce nicotine. That’s why people have smoked it for 100s of years.

        I hadn’t heard of this, but as far as insecticides go, this sounds about as benign as possible.

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          Interesting, makes me very confused on why we added nicotine to tobacco on top of what is in it already (my uncle worked on a tobacco farm as a young man and did spray the stuff). I guess they really wanted that nicotine…

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      No, it’s an actual thing. My parents also soak tobacco in water and then use it in their garden. But I don’t know if it actually does anything or not because I’m also too lazy to look it up