Apparently, it was a gag on a Simpson's episode.

But one Simpson's fan reportedly tried it out.

From http://www.simpsonschannel.com/:

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Rob Baur, a huge Simpsons fan, grafted a tomato plant to a tobacco plant, grew it, and tonight he has proof from the lab that it worked. "What we found was nicotine in the leaves". said scientist Ray Grimsbo. The plant grew off the tobacco roots and sucked up the nicotine, just like Tomacco on The Simpsons. The lab hasn't tested if the actual tomato has nicotine in it yet, but they say it probably does. "Generally in the fruit there is more material concentrated because that's what everything's going through to produce the fruit for the next generation. I would expect there would be more." And that would make the real life tomacco plant very poisonous. Rob Baur says he grew the tomacco plant just for fun, just to see if it would really work. But what's next for him? "I'll have to review my DVD's to see if there is more Simpsons science available."

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You're late.

http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=273257&forum_id=12

It helps if you spray your fields with green-glowing plutonium, too.

Actually, this could be helpful for health reasons. If you get addicted to nicotine from tomatoes, you'll eat more of them. Maybe things like tomato sauce/spaghetti sauce would have concentrated levels of nicotine - encourageing higher consumption of these foods. These foods have been proved to reduce the likelihood of prostate cancer.

exept for the fact that nicotine is a poison

Poison schmoison.

The real question is whether or not we'll soon see tomato cigarettes.

smokey flavored pasta sauce.....mmmm....so addictive.

Poison schmoison.
I like that!
CW, you have such a way with words.

I'm a freakin' poet laureat