Gunner wrote:
DavidofWales

As you can read people here like to share their opinions and
frequently inquire as to your mental health. These helpful opinions
are largely based on urban mythology and their personal preferences.
Facts and answers tend to be quite a different story.

I mostly left out the usual recycled greenie news propaganda sources
and gave you some Educational resources except for the *-lifestyles
link which seemed to be rather good basic info. The Colorado State
link is general info on nicotine products with its homepage below it
if you want further info. Just know nicotine is not the Antichrist's
power drink as outlined but use chewing tobacco. A common sense
approach to preparing and using any pesticide should be a sufficient
disclaimer.


Not necessarily.

Commercial pesticides come with all kinds of warnings and the more toxic the
substance the more strident the warnings. Tobacco comes with warnings (in
this country anyway) about the dangers of smoking it but say nothing about
making tea with it. The warnings are all about damage caused by long term
use not short term poisoning. These warnings doesn't translate to users
being aware that you can also poison yourself by ingesting the tea. Given
that the use of tobacco is still very prevalent and people don't drop dead
on the street from smoking it may seem, not knowing any better, that the tea
is fairly benign.

Under these circumstances I don't think it is excessive (Antichrist's power
drink!) to tell people that the tea is very toxic. It might not be any more
toxic than some commercial insecticides but it isn't labelled as such and
until you know that it is dangerous 'common sense' might be to handle it
without much thought like you handle other tobacco products.

David