Yep. I am open to lots of alternative therapies and have become less skeptical of some things after seeing them for myself. But that is stupid. Some swear it helps them. I do not see how that can possibly produce enough vacuum to lift anything but air out of the ear. I will stick with Q tips.

Hollow tube stuck in ear, lit, smoke goes down the tube, somehow makes wax do something so it goes away. Okay. Exactly how does the smoke get out of a tube that is stuck in your ear? I am thinking with a hollow head, maybe it comes out the nose or mouth due to the sucking action of the lungs during breathing... or the vacuum that Nature abhors?