[fireforeffect]

When you transplant it and it grows, DO NOT WORK IN SHORTS OR SHORT SLEVES! Wear gloves too.

Never walk through a field of tobacco in shorts, very unpleasant. The nicotine is secreted by the plant to ward off critters that might eat it, works on unsuspecting humans too.

[baseballmom]

I spent every summer of my life until my early 20's on the Chesapeake Bay in Southern Maryland. The beach community was part of a tobacco plantation.

We walked through many a tobacco field in shorts, or bathing suits, and never had a problem.

We would go from the fields, to swim in the bay, and back and forth, so maybe that kept any icky stuff off of us.

Our mother rubbed us down with Witch Hazel every night just in case.

Was down that way within the past two years or so, and all the tobacco is gone.

[Calpernia]

>>>>The nicotine is secreted by the plant to ward off critters that might eat it, works on unsuspecting humans too.

Then why on earth are the skunks eating my tomato plants?

[TASMANIANRED]

"Green tobacco Pickers Syndrome" can make you intensely ill.

Skin and clothing act as a big nicotine sink. You get dermal absorption. (it's the reason that nicotine patches work)

Besides wearing long sleeves and long pants. Shower as soon as you come away from working with tobacco plants.

Green Tobacco Pickers Syndrome will make you puke your toenails out but it can also cause slow heart rate and a drop in blood pressure.

[CORedneck]

Happened to a friend of mine in Kentucky. He handled it without gloves. Got sick as a dog !

When you transplant it and it grows, DO NOT WORK IN SHORTS OR SHORT SLEVES! Wear gloves too.

Never walk through a field of tobacco in shorts, very unpleasant. The nicotine is secreted by the plant to ward off critters that might eat it, works on unsuspecting humans too.