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Old 08-01-2008, 10:11 PM   #659 (permalink)
lucifer_sam
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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent View Post
Caffeine pills is a relatively conventional way of taking caffeine (if you're a truck driver anyway) and that shit can kill you. And if you confused your conventional method of smoking cigarettes a bit and ate one or three it could probably kill you too.
No kidding, caffeine pills can kill you. But most deaths are sleep apnea related, not actual overdoses (the LD 50 is ridiculous - like 50 grams or so). And eating filter-free cigarettes is much better for you than smoking them. The amount of nictotine in a cigarette is minute - about 1.1 mg, and your body would absorb that much more slowly than inhaling it. I don't see how you could possibly die from an overdose that way.

EDIT: Okay, so it's not 50 grams. Wikipedia says 192 mg/kg, which would be approximately 12-18 g. That's still more than a whole bottle of pills.
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