Date sent: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:10:19 EST
Subject: Re: Quitting Smoking
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

In a message dated 12/21/99 9:58:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
boopie-at-digisys.net writes:

<< Actually Nicotine is a completely man made, not in the body made but like
ina chemistry lab substance. One drop of pure nicotine can kill the average
sized man. >>

Nope. Nicotine is a natural substance produced in plants, especially in the
tobacco plant, but also in other related plants. For example, the flower
nicotiana produces naturally- occurring nicotine. It is, indeed, poison, but
there are lots of plant-based poisons.

Lee Morgan
Mezzo-soprano and herb grower