Goofball (?) Tomato Question

AnantaAndroscoggin

If it's true, as I read somewhere on the interwebs a couple of months ago, that the leaves of tomato plants contain higher nicotine content than tobacco leaves, does anybody know if there was ever any experimenting with harvesting tomato leaves and trying the different techniques for curing and otherwise prepping a tobacco for use as a condiment in pipe tobacco blends?

motie2

https://drugs-forum.com/threads/curing-and-smoking-tomato-leaves.221898/

motie2

http://snuffhouse.com/discussion/3111/tomato-leaf-snuff-update

<<A couple of days ago I finally made my (air-dried) tomato leaves into snuff. I made three separate batches, using three varieties of tomato leaves, but I do not really notice much taste difference between the three. Anyway, it definitely does pack a wallop of nicotine, comparable to an American Scotch. 

As for the taste, well, this probably needs to be worked on. It does smell and taste like tomatoes plus something resembling mint. A better or different curing method would undoubtedly tame this rather herbal sensation. Still, it's not at all unpleasant. Over the past two days I've had several huge pinches and I am very much alive.

Is it a psychedelic? Most definitely not. Does it work as a snuff? Yes, it does. Will it satisfy your nicotine cravings? Most definitely yes. Will you like the heavily herbal taste? That's purely subjective.

Since there was some concern on the previous thread, I will emphasize that this was purely an experiment to see if tomato leaves would work as a substitute for tobacco-based snuff. People have been smoking and chewing tomato leaves for ages, so this is not exactly unknown territory. Big tobacco companies may even be using tomato leaves as a filler ingredient in commercial cigarettes. (One of those big tobacco companies holds a U.S. patent for a cigarette blend that includes tomato leaves; I'm not sure if they are actually using it.) 

If you're looking for a high (and that was never my intention), you will not be interested in tomato leaf snuff. Better that you stick to proven hallucinogens like nutmeg or morning glory seeds for that. It's simply an herbal snuff, albeit one with as much nicotine as tobacco.>>

AnantaAndroscoggin

So it has been tried for cigars and snuff, then. Well, the tomato took a long time to catch on in Europe when the explorers brought some back from the New World. Seems that the tomato plants are closely related to the European poisonous plant called Belladonna.

I'm still wondering if it would ever be processed as are latakias, periques, air-cured, flue-cured, etc. . . . Would it give new possibilities for kinds of pipe tobacco blend tastes? Or not at all?

motie2

http://phytophactor.fieldofscience.com/2013/05/please-dont-smoke-tomatoes.html casts shade on smoking tomato leaves.....

Another warning at http://www.gardeningadvisors.com/i-just-smoked-tomato-leaves-and-now-im-super-high-but-not-a-good-high-will-i-be-safe-t15312.html

Here you can find the nicotine content of common vegetables:

AnantaAndroscoggin

Sounds about as healthy as the proverbial "smoking of fried banana peels."

ocpunk714

They made a Simpsons episode where Homer grew a farm of hybrid tomatoes known as “Tomacco”

motie2

Hey, I remember the "smoke banana peels" craze, back in the Sixties.

AnantaAndroscoggin

@ocpunk714 Nelson: " HAW-haw!"