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Any bio&|chem know what's likely to do singe eyebrows or suffocate?

Well potassium nitrate is a pretty strong oxidiser. Mill it with a pestle+mortar and mix it with icing sugar 1:1 by mass. Put 30-40g on some alu foil.

Setting fire to that will produce crap loads of smoke very quickly. I filled my entire garden up with smoke with one of them a couple of years ago.

Sure there are more in that list but that strikes me as the most obvious.

I was a chemistry nutcase in high school, and even I would draw the line at ergot.

I love rhetorical questions! No, no and no.

I don't get the chemistry of it, but the kit says it will also include ricin as some kind of safety measure.