This is just a quick little entry to discuss two moments of stupidity I had the misfortune of witnessing…

I don’t know how many of you have seen these advertisements, but I’ve only seen two so far. One of them has a can of tobacco with a tarantula coming out of it, and the other has a bag of tobacco with a snake coming out. Both of these images have the word POISON written prominantly on the right.

Here’s the problem: Spiders and snakes are NOT poisonous!!! They are VENOMOUS! Two very different things, my friends. Poison needs to be ingested, but considering that spiders and snakes need to inject their prey, the venom needs to go through the bloodstream! In fact, most snakes are not venomous at all! Hence, neither of these creatures is a valid representation for the dangers of chewing tobacco!

A poison dart frog would have been better, but I guess they figured they would go with the “scare” factor rather than be correct.

Fucking morons.

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