Tobacco powder is still widely used by gardeners as a "natural/organic" insecticide 

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From: Geoff McAuliffe 
To: Gayle Callis 
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:36:28 -0700
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Shredded cigarettes for Land snail dissection.

I think so, I think it is the nicotine that is the narcotic here.

Geoff

Gayle Callis wrote:

> At the risk of too much humor, would chewing tobacco (not used, 
> please!) do the job instead of shredding cigarettes.  A scientific use 
> for SKOL!!
>
> At 10:23 AM 9/8/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Many centuries ago, I forced a snail out of its shell by shredding a 
>> pack of
>> cigarettes into a pint of water and dropping the snail into it.
>> Borradaile's THE INVERTEBRATA has instructions for dissecting the 
>> European
>> garden snail Helix pomatia (pp. 604-610 in the 4th edition).  The 
>> book is
>> out of print, but available used.
>>
>> Allen A. Smith, Ph.D.
>> Professor of Anatomy
>> Barry University
>> School of Graduate Medical Sciences
>>             Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
>> Miami Shores, Florida
>
>
> Gayle Callis
> MT,HT,HTL(ASCP)
> Research Histopathology Supervisor
> Veterinary Molecular Biology
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