I was browsing www.fark.com and there was a flash ad for Skoal smokeless tobacco. Now, smokeless tobacco is not something that I think about frequently, but this ad really made an impression on me with the sheer magnitude of its grossiness. How much more unappealing can something be? It’s a sack full of gooey looking brown stuff that you suck on. And this is ignoring the fact that it can kill you or make your tongue fall off.

Unfortunately I was unable to take a screenshot in time when little sacks of it were flying around suggesting situations where smokeless tobacco might be fun. One suggestion was “shopping with the wife.” Now, to me, munching on tobacco while shopping with the wife is a double-dose of suck. If I’m going to be stuck shopping, I want to suck on something fun. How about jelly beans!