Bill Curtis

They love smoking?

They love cigarettes, yeah.

Have you ever seen a bird with a cigarette in its mouth and thought, where am I, Paris?

Researchers in Poland have studied songbirds and they found that some have intentionally started building cigarette butts into their nests because the chemicals in tobacco repel parasites.

The birds have figured that out.

It works.

It's a property.

They have.

I mean, this has always been true.

It's why my great uncle never had to deal with head lice until the day he died of emphysema.

No, no, no.

It turns out that they have figured out.

They're all doing it.

The birds are like other birds are smoking and like the crows are smoking and the finches are like, well, I want to look cool too.

Yeah.

This has actually been going on for years.

I remember, I'm old enough to remember when birds actually had cigarettes inside restaurants.

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