What Can You do with Mouldy Tobacco, if Anything?

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Franco Pipenbeans

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Good day Piper-nauts, a quick question - what can you do (if anything) with a jar of tobacco that has gone mouldy?

I presume the answer is “Chuck it in the bin!” But I have nearly 4oz’s that have gone white and fluffy so it seems like a waste of tobacco and money to discard it.

Any suggestions gratefully received.
 
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Good day Piper-nauts, a quick question - what can you do (if anything) with a jar of tobacco that has gone mouldy?

I presume the answer is “Chuck it in the bin!” But I have nearly 4oz’s that have gone white and fluffy so it seems like a waste of tobacco and money to discard it.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

It'd be a bigger waste of money to try to "revive" or worse, racking up a cute medical bill.

Don't throw good money after bad, just bin it.
 

mso489

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What do you do with moldy food you dig out of the refrigerator? You can do a mold spore study; you can explore its properties as an antibiotic, like penicillin; and after you have considered those for a while, you can give it a dignified burial, container and all, in your wet trash bin. It has no purpose, reuse, recycling potential, or meaning in your life. Mold sheds spores and will take root anywhere it can find vegetative matter suited to its appetite.
 

JimInks

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Does anyone know what disease or condition one would get if they smoked moldy tobacco?
I had some GLP Stonehenge that I wasn't sure whether it was moldy or just supposed to look like that. Didn't smell bad at all, but after a couple of bowls, I knew something wasn't right.
Lung disease among other crippling effects. The mold you smoke goes into your lungs, and is also absorbed in your mouth tissue. It can create holes in your lungs, infect them, and cause them to collapse. The mold and infection can spread through out your body and kill you. A few years ago, I asked my genetic botanist friend about this because of the C&D Red Flake problem, and that was her report. She has forty years experience as a scientist, and that's good enough for me. Being cheap can kill you.
 
Lung disease among other crippling effects. The mold you smoke goes into your lungs, and is also absorbed in your mouth tissue. It can create holes in your lungs, infect them, and cause them to collapse. The mold and infection can spread through out your body and kill you. A few years ago, I asked my genetic botanist friend about this because of the C&D Red Flake problem, and that was her report. She has forty years experience as a scientist, and that's good enough for me. Being cheap can kill you.
Crap! I'm gonna die. Actually, about a week after the Stonehenge incident, I developed a cough that has ebbed and flowed, but has been constant. Crap! I didn't smell mold at all. Tobacco can be tricky stuff.
 

Franco Pipenbeans

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Lung disease among other crippling effects. The mold you smoke goes into your lungs, and is also absorbed in your mouth tissue. It can create holes in your lungs, infect them, and cause them to collapse. The mold and infection can spread through out your body and kill you. A few years ago, I asked my genetic botanist friend about this because of the C&D Red Flake problem, and that was her report. She has forty years experience as a scientist, and that's good enough for me. Being cheap can kill you.
Hmm, that’s all I needed to know. Thank you.