You can now drink tobacco...

[Engineer99]

Well, sort of.

While channel surfing last night, I happened upon Travel Channel's Booze Traveler. Upon changing the channel, I saw guys with leaves of tobacco in a curing barn and was somewhat amused that the parties involved had found a way to incorporate tobacco into liquor. There was something about how old whiskey and rum barrels had been used to cure tobacco for some time and how they could flip that paradigm on its head and flavor alcohol with tobacco. The host of the show quite enjoyed it, citing a lot of the same flavor identifiers that we associate with good tobacco.

http://www.absintheonline.com/acatalog/Perique_Liqueur_de_Tabac.html

[Branzig]

Well why the hell not?

I already do everything else that is bad for me, I mine as well combine my alcohol intake with my tobacco intake all at once. I am a fan of efficiency after all.

[HIM]

Thats pretty cool but .... PLEASE DONT TRY MAKING THAT AT HOME!!!! Thats a really dangerous line to walk. I looked into this idea because I wanted to use tobacco in a beer and learned it isn't something to mess around with. Most of the nicotine in the tobacco we smoke burns off the cherry and doesn't make it into the smoke in our mouth. The concentration of nicotine you'd end up getting could easily be lethal.

[Jolly_WhiteGiant]

Yikes. I have no plans to drink my smokes, but not all Bums have the common sense that I do. 150

I was making a chocolate tatuaje milkshake when I saw this. Thanks for saving me!

[AlanS]

Twenty years or so back we were headed for the Beach. 2 hour drive with the Wife and boys. I was a cigarette smoker at the time and had been using a Coke can for an ashtray. We stop at rest area and my five year old grabs my can to down my coke. That's was as close as I care to get to ingesting tobacco. That's when I threw my cigarettes in the trash. I think I'll stick with Bourbon or Rum with my Cola not Marlboro Reds.

[steelman]

Twenty years or so back we were headed for the Beach. 2 hour drive with the Wife and boys. I was a cigarette smoker at the time and had been using a Coke can for an ashtray. We stop at rest area and my five year old grabs my can to down my coke. That's was as close as I care to get to ingesting tobacco. That's when I threw my cigarettes in the trash. I think I'll stick with Bourbon or Rum with my Cola not Marlboro Reds.

That reminded me of being at a party in high school and several of us chewing tobacco and spitting into a beer bottle. Some were also smoking some other green leafy product. Anyway after awhile one of the bottles was about 1/3 full of spit and chew and someone must've misplaced their beer and decided to grab that one and chug from it. After seeing the result of this even after 25-30 years I am still squeamish about the moment. So no tobacco infused beer here.

[Dave.73]

Interesting...but reading all of the horror stories following the initial post makes it an easy decision for me. Steer clear of drinking tobacco!

[AlBaron]

Well why the hell not?

I already do everything else that is bad for me, I mine as well combine my alcohol intake with my tobacco intake all at once. I am a fan of efficiency after all.

+ 1000 :)

Alex

[_peps]

As a smokeless tobacco user, I have "drank tobacco" on a few dip spit mishaps. Disgusting

[DataJockey]

I think a nice Port would go with that cigar better :cool:

[Alligator Gar]

What's bad about it is once you start drinking you can't stop because it's all one big, long string. Or so I've heard.

[Engineer99]

All these posts about accidentally ingesting the contents of a dip receptacle made my sphincter pucker up tighter than a snare drum. I've seen a pretty full cup spilled on someone a long time ago and just thinking of it now gives me the heebie jeebies...

[SmokeNSeams]

I too have had my mishaps with dip, however, I think I would try this. Here's an article about the process of making perique, which I'm guessing is fermented in the barrels that the liqueur is aged in. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/us/tobacco-lovers-discover-mystique-of-perique.html

[Ropey]

Lethal dosage of nicotine is about 0.75mg/kg in adult humans. For a 175 lb guy the lethal dosage would be around 60mg.

Don't know about cigars, but a cigarette has about 10 mg of nicotine in it. 90% of that is destroyed by burning and an even smaller amount actually enters the bloodstream (when smoked). Drinking it would be another matter.

Nicotine is water-soluble. If you soaked a cigarette in water, let's say that half (5mg) of the nicotine would leach into the water. This might be higher. If you drank it, you'd likely absorb let's say 75% of that. That's 3.75mg per cigarette.

Therefore if you dropped 15+ cigarettes into a glass of water, let it sit overnight, and chugged the water, you'd likely die or come very close to it. This is about the max. If given longer soak times and a smaller body which absorbs closer to 100% of the nicotine in the stomach, it could be as few as 5 cigarettes.

Not sure about cigars. Likely depends on the blend.

[HIM]

According to the CDC...

"A cigar, depending on its size and type, can contain anywhere from 10 to 444 mg of nicotine."

And the National Capital Poison Center....

"the lethal dosage of nicotine in the human body is 40-60mg, although mild signs
of poisoning can show up after consuming as little as 5mg."

[CigarEnthusiast]

Thats pretty cool but .... PLEASE DONT TRY MAKING THAT AT HOME!!!! Thats a really dangerous line to walk. I looked into this idea because I wanted to use tobacco in a beer and learned it isn't something to mess around with. Most of the nicotine in the tobacco we smoke burns off the cherry and doesn't make it into the smoke in our mouth. The concentration of nicotine you'd end up getting could easily be lethal.

That's a cool way to win a Darwin Award!

[droy1958]

Lethal dosage of nicotine is about 0.75mg/kg in adult humans. For a 175 lb guy the lethal dosage would be around 60mg.

Don't know about cigars, but a cigarette has about 10 mg of nicotine in it. 90% of that is destroyed by burning and an even smaller amount actually enters the bloodstream (when smoked). Drinking it would be another matter.

Nicotine is water-soluble. If you soaked a cigarette in water, let's say that half (5mg) of the nicotine would leach into the water. This might be higher. If you drank it, you'd likely absorb let's say 75% of that. That's 3.75mg per cigarette.

Therefore if you dropped 15+ cigarettes into a glass of water, let it sit overnight, and chugged the water, you'd likely die or come very close to it. This is about the max. If given longer soak times and a smaller body which absorbs closer to 100% of the nicotine in the stomach, it could be as few as 5 cigarettes.

Not sure about cigars. Likely depends on the blend.
Don't get me wrong, but who is going to marinate 15 cigs in a beverage and drink it. It's like saying "if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle".... Just saying'...

[Nostromo]

In some tribes in South America, the initiation rites for shamans, that can go on for weeks, involve ingesting a tobacco drink as well as tobacco enemas until the initiates go into a hallucinatory state.

[PSD4]

Let me get this straight.....you're telling me NOT to put my nubs in my morning ninja smoothie?:confused:

[Ropey]

Don't get me wrong, but who is going to marinate 15 cigs in a beverage and drink it. It's like saying "if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle".... Just saying'...That's really insightful, thanks.