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[challenge entry] New Study Reveals Benefits of Smoking

From the International Smoking Day challenge. See all 485 entries (closed)

(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:21, archived)
# The man makes a good point!
*smokes*
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:23, archived)
#
zippos are the coolest thing ever
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:23, archived)
# methanol is what makes meths kill you
FACT!
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:25, archived)
# They only put it in...
...to make the alcohol poisonous, to discourage people from drinking it.

Having said that, pure alcohol isn't going to do your body many favours either.

(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:26, archived)
# yep,
so that industrial alcohol avoids the taxes levied on drinking alcohol (ethanol).
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:27, archived)
# because ethanol is oxidised in the body to vinegar,
but methanol becomes methanoic acid, which will kill you.

100% of FACT.
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:28, archived)
# pish posh
i pour methanol on my cornflakes, it's what's made me the vegetable man I am today
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:30, archived)
# and hydrogen.
which is why you burp.
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:31, archived)
# They also...
...add a purple dye, so you know not to drink it - otherwise it would be colourless.

A bit like diesel - although you don't drink that. I don't reccomend it anyway.
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:30, archived)
# not if you're a lightweight
;¬)
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:34, archived)
# and ammonia
knocks you out. plus it smells of staircases.
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:27, archived)
# butanol is what makes ducks kill you
they love it.
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:27, archived)
# ahem
repost...


:-D
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:25, archived)
# oh
did the first one work? everything went screwy here so I killed it...
(, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 19:34, archived)