SELF: November 1993 p. 73 CAN I BUM A TOMATO? Believe it or not, ~some ordinary vegetables contain nicotine.~ You absorb the same amount of nicotine when you eat less than an ounce of eggplant or pureed tomatoes as you do when you breathe secondhand smoke for three hours, according to a letter in _The New England Journal of Medicine_. p. 74 What's in a cola? by Stephanie Williams