Shocking! See Why Tanzania Women Apply Tobacco on their privates…

Tobacco plant is now gaining popularity in Tanzania not because if its official uses but for the extra miles the Tanzanian women are inventing on its new ‘uses’.

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According to a report by the BBC, the women, from Tabora are applying ground tobacco on their privates for simple reasons; to stop the urge of having sex! This practice is commonly used by widowed women.

Zaituni Shabani, a widow from Tabora province confessed she grounds dried tobacco leaves which she then inserts in her private parts sometimes at least twice a week.

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Zaituni told BBC News upon losing her husband, she opted to remain single and take care of her children without having to start a new life with another man and to suppress her urges, she uses tobacco.

“When I put the tobacco (in my privates) I feel like I have been with a man. Even if a man makes a move at me, I just feel nothing for him at all. An old woman told me to mix the ground tobacco (ugoro) with soda ash (magadi) before mixing it with cooking oil and applying” she said.

According to Asha’s husband Hamidu Santu, he was prompted to investigate the matter after she turned down his advances time and again.

“Whenever I asked her (for conjugal rights), she declined. After carrying out my investigation, I found her with tobacco, despite neither of us using the drug.


“I asked her why she had tobacco yet she did not smoke it but she didn’t respond.  After constantly inquiring on the matter, she finally told me what she uses it for,” he said.

The women are also of the view that tobacco use act as a family planning method.

However, Health experts warn those inserting any foreign object in their genitals are at high risk of interfering with Ph of virginal fluids leaving them vulnerable to infections.

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