Re: What else is there to drink?

From: Jim Shaffer, Jr. (jmshaffer_at_alltel.net)
Date: 07/11/04


Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:58:41 -0400

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 02:32:31 GMT, "Herman Family"
<celcaps@frontiernets.net/without_any_s/> wrote:

>While mercury might be tolerated somewhat by drinking it (not advised), I
>recall that some kids in Texarkana, Arkansas (or was it Texas) found some
>mercury and decided to play with it. One dipped his cigarette in it and
>smoked it. Supposedly he ended up psychotic. I believe it was in TIME
>magazine a few years back.

Sounds like a variation on the old PTFE-in-cigarettes urban legend.



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