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17 Comments to "Cigarette Smoking is Good … for Birds!"
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bean
May 7th, 2008 at
3:15 pm
Who else is wondering if the chicks hatched with some sort of cancer?
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Scooter
May 7th, 2008 at
3:56 pm
at least its soft and insulated… I guess.
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artbot
May 7th, 2008 at
4:02 pm
Last summer we cut down some overgrown trees down that bordered our property. There was a small abandoned bird’s nest in them that I was excited to keep and display, or use for some kind of art project, but once I saw it up close, it was half made of trash. And not “neat” trash that could offer some kind of social commentary, just stinky food wrappers and other dirty crap. Still a miracle of natural construction and all, but yuk!
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Lea
May 7th, 2008 at
6:48 pm
bean, my thoughts exactly…
This person doesn’t have the heart to chase it away? Let’s see…what hundreds of chemicals have seeped into the POROUS surface of the eggs, possibly mutating, killing or at very least, making the babies and the mama and papa sick? And if any babies survive, how will that affect their babies (if they aren’t barren) or animals that may eat them? -
Rich
May 7th, 2008 at
7:52 pm
Lea,
I heard he’s going to cook the birds once they hatch! He’ll feast on their blood like a vampire. Sick, I know! What’s wrong with these people?!? -
...tom...
May 7th, 2008 at
7:54 pm
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In years past I have cleaned bird nests out of one of our gutters that did not drain correctly.In them have been literally hundreds (or so it seemed) of the narrow cellophane strips produced when a softpack of smokes is opened. For some reason the birds seemed to like them for nest-building material.
In recent years the number of ’strips’ in the nests I have found has been far less. Perhaps that is an indirect indicator of the success of ‘no smoking’ campaigns.
Or it could just be the convenience store near us has also been closed for those same years. I can just see the frantic smokers walking out of the store ripping their pack of smokes open to get their next fix.
…tom…
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Lea
May 7th, 2008 at
8:46 pm
Oh Rich, your wit! It’s searing.
Not.
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The Slapster
May 7th, 2008 at
9:22 pm
Cool, can I get one of those chicks to stick in between my cheek & gum? Cheaper than nicotine patches!
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fsmarch
May 8th, 2008 at
12:42 am
I would have thought that the stench of the cigarette butts would have kept the birds away…
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Parker
May 8th, 2008 at
1:25 am
I’m guessing the cellophane and filters are good heat insulators. Also hoping that there isn’t much for the eggs to absorb from them.
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windowshoppist
May 8th, 2008 at
2:42 am
I was wondering about cancer, too, but it seems like the twigs and stuff would likely insulate the eggs from seepage, right?
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K!P
May 8th, 2008 at
6:44 am
isnt tar one of the main cancer promotors? and this is non soludable in water, thats why it’s such a problem in lungs. This would also imply that it does not harm the birds, unless they start to smoke em. They might get an nicotine addiction tho.
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sarai
May 8th, 2008 at
7:48 am
I remember hearing about a species of bird that would rub themselves with cigarette butts to keep a type of mite away. Maybe there is something similar here.
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Zagnut
May 8th, 2008 at
8:14 am
Darwinism at work. A new breed of nicotine fowl. Hopefully we can smoke the feathers since smokes cost so much these days…
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LoveZombie
May 8th, 2008 at
1:13 pm
That is cute in a weird sort of way. ha ha
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hahahha
May 8th, 2008 at
8:24 pm
i once found a mouse nest made of butts too!!!
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LoopyLou
May 11th, 2008 at
2:51 am
Nicotine is a natural insect repellent, and will keep mites, fleas and ticks off of the baby birds. Besides, birds have way better instincts than we do. If it was so bad for them, you’d think they wouldn’t want to have babies near it.
You can soak cig butts in water and make a plant spray to keep aphids off of your roses. That’s what my grandpa used to do and it works great.
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