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In our ongoing debate about the dangers of second-hand smoke, my friend Aaron recalled to me in an email an episode of the X-Files, one which I don't think I have seen. Here's what he wrote:
A tobacco company creates a new kind of cigarette, a supposedly "safer" cigarette. However somehow it results in a new breed of tobacco beetle. The new beetle's eggs are tiny and resilient and survive the process of being smoked, only to end up in the lungs of smokers and secondhand smokers. Only one of the test group smokers survives, as he is immune to the eggs or something. But anyone he smokes around gets the eggs in their lungs, and the smoke makes eggs hatch and turn into beetles which burrow through their lungs, crawl from their mouths and eat their faces. Pretty gross!
Pretty gross indeed! Maybe I should write my Preventive Medicine term paper on the effects of watching this X-Files on smoking rates in the viewers.
posted by LizeCR @ 10:47 AM
1 Comments:
That was a good episode. Most of them were good. One of the best involved a large, carnivorous plant in a field that sedated its victims with a powder released when its flowers were stepped on, leaving animals (including humans) to be subsumed under the ground and digested by the organism, which would then expel back to the surface the skeletons of its meals. Scary stuff.
Also, the one when Mulder sings the "Theme From Shaft."
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