On Sep 20, 6:03*am, Omelet > wrote:
> In article >,

>
> > My vote for "dumbest idea ever" would be cigarettes.

> <lol> But that pre-dates WTW carpeting! :-)
> I do have to wonder tho' how anyone ever thought that sucking smoke into
> one's lungs was a cool idea...

Ask the Indians

I knew one man whose doctor recommended it for his nerves, back in the
early 1950's.

BTW have you ever heard the Bob Newhart monologue about King James VI
& I and Sir Walter Raliegh when Sir W sends a shipload of tobacco
home?