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Cigarette Butts are Lethal They say that people who legally own guns more often injure themselves accidentally than use their legal guns to intentionally injure others. A good example of this may be reflected in the news story reported February Eleventh, where two drunk people were goofing around, when one drunk challenged the other to shoot them with cigarette butts, and I quote from the article, “to see what it would feel like.” The other drunk loaded an antique rifle with cigarette butts, but he also placed black powder behind the butts, you know, to make sure they had the power to leave the gun barrel. At seven feet, one drunk shot the other with cigarette butts, but the nicotine filters penetrated the rib cage of the thirty-one-year-old. The man who made the challenge later died of three cigarette butts to the heart. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.