What movie features this scene: Some rogue, perhaps the protagonist, is walking down a hall. He hears someone, perhaps a teacher, administrator, or other authority figure, hailing him from behind. As he has a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and doesn’t want said person noticing, he deftly flips it into his mouth before turning to face her. I think she talks to him about “motorcycle tracks on school grounds” or something like that.
Thanks to this scene, which was on TV when I was a kid, I thought that, if one so desires, one could eat a cigarette, rather than, say, dropping it in a urinal.
There was a scene in Cheers where Rebecca Howe, afraid of getting caught smoking, flipped a lit cigarette into her mouth when Sam came into her office, then flipped it out again when he left.
One of the late Three Stooges comedies (with Joe Besser) has him eating cigars. For some reason, Besser was pretending to be a child; someone found a cigar in his pocket and says he’s too young to smoke. Moe says, “He doesn’t smoke them. He eats them like candy” and Joe is forced to show how he does it.
My friend’s mom forced him to eat a cigarette as punishment for getting caught smoking one when we were in grade 5. It wasn’t lit at the time. Word on the street was it didn’t taste very good.
And just for completeness of story: one of the other kid’s dads made him smoke an entire cigarette and he got quite sick. The other 2 kids involved just got beatings if I recall correctly.
As far as I know, none of them ever took up smoking for real later in life.
That is a very bad idea. Nicotine is a toxin and much more of it is absorbed when a cigarette is ingested than when it’s smoked. Eating one cigarette probably won’t kill even a small child, but it’s definitely a bad idea.
Once upon a time when I was young and beginning to dabble in smoking, I got the bright idea that cigarette tobacco and chewing tobacco were the same thing. A friend and I found a half smoked cigarette on the top of some stairs to an underground parking. We tore the burn bit off, and proceeded to chew the remaining tobacco.
Let me assure you, it was the most wretched, vile, caustic, burning flavour sensation I have ever experienced. The trendy new “87698726987634982346923864238 Scoville units hot” type hot sauces are a walk thru Mary Poppins Park on a Sunny Sunday in comparison.
Once upon a time when I was young and beginning to dabble in smoking, I got the bright idea that cigarette tobacco and chewing tobacco were the same thing. A friend and I found a half smoked cigarette on the top of some stairs to an underground parking. We tore the burn bit off, and proceeded to chew the remaining tobacco.
Let me assure you, it was the most wretched, vile, caustic, burning flavour sensation I have ever experienced. The trendy new “87698726987634982346923864238 Scoville units hot” type hot sauces are a walk thru Mary Poppins Park on a Sunny Sunday in comparison.
In the 70s I went to England, where I had been born, and finally met my mother’s parents. My grandfather smoked and, while he didn’t do the eat a cigarette trick, he often used to take one out of the pack and just flick it back between his lips. I thought it was very cool and tried to work out how to do it but couldn’t.