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To: Red Badger
Nicotine is a natural insecticide.

Tobacco evolved it to keep insects from eating the plant. The mood-altering (and addictive) effects that humans get from smoking it is just a coincidence.

Of course, tobacco companies have since controlled nicotine content through selective breeding. But, man didn't invent the nicotine insecticide: nature/evolution did.

13 posted on 09/06/2012 8:58:59 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: justlurking

I can really go for a cigar or pipe right now


16 posted on 09/06/2012 9:05:47 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: justlurking
Tobacco evolved it to keep insects from eating the plant.

Which begs the question why other plants did not also evolve this safe guard.

20 posted on 09/06/2012 9:09:17 AM PDT by MEGoody (You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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27 posted on 09/06/2012 9:19:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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To: justlurking
Tobacco evolved it to keep insects from eating the plant.

Hope cows, pigs and chickens don't get wind of this evolving thing.

38 posted on 09/06/2012 9:54:53 AM PDT by Starstruck (It's all Obama's fault)
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