04-14-2003, 12:37 AM
JapanRon: Being a veteran of Okinawa and the billions of mosquitos that used to hover over our heads in the evening, I was suprised that you didn't mention the only remedy that ever kept those critters off our bodies. The only thing that kept them 2 feet over our heads and not on our heads was a lit cigarette or better than that a chaw of Beechnut. No insect can withstand the influence of tobacco and yes you're right I got hooked on chewing tobacco and it took a long time to get off of it. At the time it was all we had.
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