Isn’t there enough nicotine in a cigarette to kill a non-smoker if eaten?
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over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days agoI’ve actually done this once before, as I was briefly having belly issues and honestly couldn’t eliminate the possibility of a parasite.
It made me feel a bit weird for a day or so, but not too bad really. It did slow my cigarette craving for a while too. It didn’t outright evacuate my guts as you might assume, also apparently I didn’t have any intestinal worms thankfully.
I think the way this is meant to work is that if you do have worms, the nicotine is supposed to shock the little demons into unclamping their jaws and basically evicting themselves.
I’d stand by this technique for survivalists in a pinch though.
SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 2 days ago
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No. But it will make you rather queasy.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I found it eased my belly to consume the cigarette followed by a couple glasses of V8 juice.
linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 2 days ago
I’d rather eat the cigarette than drink the V8.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
No, the factoid is that there’s enough nicotine in a single cigarette to kill you, if all of that nicotine got past your blood-brain barrier at once. Since that’s more or less an impossibility, don’t worry about eating one.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nah, not really. Sure it might make a non-smoker feel worse while it goes through them, one eaten cigarette isn’t gonna kill an adult.
Now if it was the amount of nicotine out of an entire 20 pack, or someone being stupid enough to suck/chew on a daily nicotine patch, well that would be a different story… 💀
If one does happen to have intestinal worms, well I think eating a cigarette is by far the lesser of the two discomforting evils…
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wikipedia says the lethal dose is estimated to be 6.5 to 13 mg / kg of body weight. Following that, a cig couldn’t possibly kill you. Probably not even when injected into a vein
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I’m pretty sure you would die if I injected a cigarette into your vein.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think if you made a tea to concentrate the nicotine it’d do it. That’s how I’ve heard it used as a poison.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It also paralyzes your cilia so it’s not improbable (cilia are the little hairs that line your breathey tubes and rhythmically beat to push gunk up and out). It’s actually why the smokers cough usually gets worse a few days after quitting then stays worse until you’re finished hacking up all the built up tar. Your cilia wake up to your respiratory tract fucking trashed like WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just curious, is this true for smokeless tobacco too? I mean not the tar bit obviously, just the paralysing.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Honestly the research on exactly why this happens is sparse enough as it is. It’s basically impossible to do truly conclusive studies with tobacco because of how dangerous it is. We can’t even technically conclusively say that tobacco causes cancer because to truly scientifically assert that you’d have to do a randomized controlled trial. To have a truly randomized controlled trial you would have to randomly select people from the overall sample and tell them to start smoking for the purposes of the study (otherwise you can’t rule out there being some third thing that both causes the cancer and causes people to want to smoke). And because we know tobacco is insanely addictive and are all but that one millimeter short of proving that it causes cancer, no medical ethics oversight body would ever allow a study that requires participants to start smoking.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh absolutely, I’m glad we’re not doing that. I don’t get why there’s so few statistical studies, like ‘people who have been using (e.g.) chewing tobacco have x health stat compared to y in the general population’. It’s frustrating, especially with how many young people are using snus and vapes in recent years. It’s tough to make informed health decisions when the information is hard to come by.