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Asked by louis2k12 to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 19 Mar 2012.
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James Boone answered on 19 Mar 2012:
Some people chew tobacco, and it can give them mouth cancer. I can’t imagine eating it would do you any good, but it wouldn’t kill you immediately. yuk.
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Suzanne McEndoo answered on 19 Mar 2012:
It would probably make you feel ill, like if you eat things like grass or other some other plants. If you only ate tobacco and nothing else, you would probably end up malnourished and die, but the same applies to lettuce.
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Robert Thompson answered on 19 Mar 2012:
I Know some mates who did it for a dare and they are alive, so no I guess. But I don’t fancy doing it any time soon.
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Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 20 Mar 2012:
The short answer. Yes. But you would have to eat a lot of it. Nicotine is toxic in high doses but the amount in the average cigarette is fairly low. Tobacco leaves are about 3% nicotine in dry weight which corresponds to about 1mg in an average cigarette. Smoking it means you absorb less of this so eating it would probably be a bit worse. A lethal dose would be about 60mg so you’d have to eat a lot and I doubt you could handle that much without being sick. Nicotine is in fact a neurotoxin though in low doses it has a stimulatory effect.
I definately would not advise eating it.
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