Comment on American exceptionalism
drmoose@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I spray my garden with couple of cigarettes worth of tobacco water once in a while - works great as a natural insecticide!
I also used to live next to a tobacco plantation in Thailand once and the plant itself is quite incredible - basically untouchable by disease or insects so completel hands free and the fields are really cozy.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I’m not sure if you’re trolling or not but I’m too lazy to search if you are.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 13 hours 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…
jmill@lemmy.zip 54 minutes ago
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.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 27 seconds ago
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…
Slovene@feddit.nl 13 hours ago
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