Somewhere in my youth or childhood, i think i followed Huck Finn's example and tried smoking corn silk in a cob. Boy, was that a whole bowl full of nothing. Remembering that Samuel Clemons, aka Mark Twain, the author of Huckleberry Finn, was an adamant pipe and cigar smoker, was this a cruel joke? Or did small boys in days of yore actually smoke corn silk, and if so why? Was it a sort of training wheels for later tobacco smoking? I would think it would put people off smoking, since it is both hard to burn and mostly flavorless. Has anyone ever had a pleasant smoking experience with corn silk? Or was Twain just pulling our legs? He's the one who said he'd like opera if it wasn't for all that damned singing.