Exporting vegetables
Sir,—Puerile protests against pipe-puffing Parliamentarians polluting the parsnips seem superfluous. Tobacco dust and nicotine have been used by horticulturists for many years and have not yet produced a coughing carrot, a polluted pumpkin, or leguminous lung-cancer. Why this sudden malicious attack upon that succulent symbol of concentration and contentment, the warm-bowled briar?—Yours, etc., G. M. EDMONDS. June 16, 1971.
Sir,—Regarding nicotine on fruit and vegetables, bunches of grapes are often placed in plastic bowls for hospital patients. At visiting times clouds of tobacco smoke settle on them. The nurses eat the grapes and their intestines are valuable. A friend from Durban once told me nicotine had been known to kill a six-foot Cython. It was not smoking, Ut had swallowed a dose in some kind of experiment.— Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. June 16, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32635, 17 June 1971, Page 10
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