Can you smoke tree tobacco?

Question

I just have to know becuase I know there is tobacco that almost everyone does or have done but is it okay to smoke tree tobacco?

And dont be telling me about health ok I know all about that its bad and i dont give a f*** so if u know please any info would be cool

Thanks

Answer 1

Sorry, I thought you said 'smoke free tobacco'

Apparently it is toxic if eaten.  Looks like indians smoked it.

I would stick to normal tobacco from the store if i was you.

"Tree tobacco is a common plant in California, and is found in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Iowa, Hawaii, and other areas. It is on the list of toxic plants in several states, including Texas, California, and North Carolina. Native Americans in some areas substitute it for native tobacco (1). To enhance the spiritual experience, tree tobacco is sometimes smoked by California Native Americans in combination with Datura wrightii, which may be dangerous as both plants induce respiratory depression (1)."

"Externally tobacco was used to relieve local pain and inflammation because of its pronounced anodyne and anti-inflammatory effects.  This made it especially useful in cases of toothache and earache. Other methods were also employed for earache.  The tobacco leaves were smoked in a pipe with a wad of cotton under the burning tobacco.

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Then the cotton was placed into the ear canal. Or smoke was blown into the ear. Tobacco is antiseptic as well and a poultice has even been used as antivenin in the case of rattlesnake bites—after the poison was sucked out, of course. Additionally, a decoction of the leaves was used for burns and scalds, and the powdered leaf applied over all. Applications of the wash and powder were also used on rotting wounds to promote healing.  Fresh plant poultices were used for insect bites and stings, skin ulcers, and swellings.

The ashes of tobacco were used to clean and whiten teeth—it is very abrasive in this form, and to cleanse the gums and fight gum disease. Pregnant women used snuff to encourage sneezing, which would bring on labor. And snuff was used generally to clear the head, especially for rhinitis.

Before the discovery of nicotine in tobacco the plant was used widely as a pesticide.  In the US it was used as a crop dust until deadly DDT made its appearance on the market.  Indeed, it will kill all manner of walking or crawling things, including head lice.  Small animals—humans too—are especially susceptible.

Some Native American tribes smoked tobacco in order to achieve a narcotic, or altered, state, although smoking tobacco without the addition of other herbs was not common practice. It was most commonly smoked with Manzanita leaves, and/or parts of other plants.  In fact, often tobacco was left out of the smoking mixture altogether. Smoking seemed to be practiced mostly by men, although some women indulged.  And it was normally part of a ritual, or personal or communal prayer.  The Seminoles smoked tobacco as a charm to ward off disease and blew it over snakebites. Regarded as sacred by many Native Americans, all parts of the tobacco plant are used in offerings to the spirits.  A traditional gesture of respect is to give tobacco to an elder whose advice one seeks. "