# Did anyone, literally, want smoke blown up their ass?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 24, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-literally-want-smoke-blown-up-their-ass/826617 "2018-12-24T09:45:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-literally-want-smoke-blown-up-their-ass/826617/41 "2018-12-27T18:27:58Z")

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Was that supposed to help cure the horse of something? And how do you not get kicked straight in the head?

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-literally-want-smoke-blown-up-their-ass/826617/42 "2018-12-27T19:06:38Z")

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> [@SigMan](#):
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> Hmm… I find this interesting. Does this mean if I stick my pain pill up my ass it’ll work better than by swallowing it?

Probably not, but it makes one hell of a analogy/protest against the current state of heath care.

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**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-literally-want-smoke-blown-up-their-ass/826617/43 "2018-12-27T20:52:09Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Probably not, but it makes one hell of a analogy/protest against the current state of heath care.

LOL! I’ll bet it works. :rolleyes:

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**Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-literally-want-smoke-blown-up-their-ass/826617/44 "2018-12-27T23:03:49Z")

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> [@freckafree](#):
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> Wikipedia entry about tobacco enemas:
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> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco\_smoke\_enema](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema)
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> (Sorry for the ham-handed linking. My cursor is not letting me highlight text for some reason.)

For some reason, Google Chrome doesn’t work well for me on the SDMB.

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**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-literally-want-smoke-blown-up-their-ass/826617/45 "2018-12-28T18:26:49Z")

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> [@griffin1977](#):
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> It was so accepted as a treatment for drowning that Victorian swimming pools would have the nessacary equipment available to administer tobacco smoke enemas. The same way modern pools have CPR instructions at hand in the event of drowning.

Of all the bizarre things I have learned from the Straight Dope, this is definitely near the top of the list.

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