Thanks for your info about tobacco.. I knew what alcohol would do but didn't have a clue about the clotting properties of tobacco.
Very good to know.
I saw it on a website a while ago and also a segment of a Shark week show on the Discovery Channel-- had a Japanese man that survived a shark attack by packing cigarettes into the most severe of the wounds.
(Of course I wouldn't use it other than as a last resort and the only other option was bleeding to death.)
For some reason I can't find the site again and all the searches have only had NEGATIVE info about tobacco uses...go figure.